Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also promised that his committee would go along with the President's choices. But he balked when it came to the more numerous federal district judges. Instead of a Mississippi commission coming up with five names for a judgeship and the President choosing one, Eastland reportedly told Attorney General Griffin Bell: "I'll hand you a slip of paper with one name on it, and that'll be the judge...
Carter was left trying to persuade individual Senators to set up merit commissions. So far, Senators in 18 states have agreed. The Omnibus Judgeship Act empowers the Administration to establish "standards and guidelines" for choosing federal district judges. But as Attorney General Bell cautions, "They're not mandatory. It's more of a friendly persuasion operation...
...Generally, the Administration has won the reluctant cooperation of business. Last week General Motors and AT&T announced that they would comply with the guidelines. Increases in steel prices and railroad rates have been held within the basic standard, which calls for companies to limit price rises over the next year to half a percentage point below their average annual rises in 1976-77. Still higher increases may be made by companies with special problems, like rapidly rising raw material costs, so long as their pretax profit margins do not go above the average for the best...
...Rubinstein and Max Factor have been absorbed by conglomerates, and are in varying degrees of trouble now). Through all the turmoil, a few cosmetics firms have catered to the narcissistic tastes of the "me generation" skillfully enough to keep growing rapidly; and one, Revlon, Inc., has developed into a General Motors of beauty...
...general the large companies probably will take an ever increasing share of the market, because they have the money for the extensive research, intensive promotion and building up of widespread distribution networks. The growth of cosmetics sales is expected to slow a bit, to perhaps 8% or 8.5% annually over the next few years, from 9% to 12.5% during 1976-77-78. One reason is that cosmetics companies are suffering from their own promotional success; many women now regard cosmetics as necessities to be bought all the time, rather than as luxury items to splurge on when incomes rise. That...