Word: guideposts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration claims that in the six months through last January, Sears increased prices at an annual pace of 4.2%, well over the 3.2% allowed it by COWPS. The rollback is designed to bring the company into line with the Government's guidepost for the year and feed back to the public any "excess" profits. About 20% of Sears' business is catalogue sales, and the company will automatically send refunds to any customers who mail in too much money. Sears also will make "selective'' price reductions in its stores...
...general, heavy U.S. investment in South Africa--currently at $2.5 billion--does contribute to the economic strength of the Vorster regime, and makes it more likely that the U.S. will continue to use business rather than human interest as the major guidepost for our foreign policy in southern Africa...
...quick, confident calculations of Las Vegas' top football odds maker will be the make-or-break guidepost for millions of Americans who are likely to wind up wagering as much as $200 million. 'The action for the Super Bowl is tremendous," says a federal official who monitors nationwide gambling patterns. "The bettors go for broke. Those who lost during the regular season try to recoup. The winners dream of doubling their money." For all its size, Super Bowl betting is just the tip of an illegal pro football betting business, run by bookies and betting syndicates, that handles...
...accord provided boosts in wages and fringe benefits adding up to at least 7% annually, thus stretching the Nixon Administration's 6.2% guidepost rule...
...Board. Three other labor leaders walked out with him. Their immediate reason for resigning: the board's decision to override them and cut back the West Coast dock-strike settlement from a 20.6% first-year raise to 14.9%, which itself is more than twice the basic wage guidepost. The surprise departure of Meany and Presidents I.W. Abel of the Steelworkers, Floyd Smith of the Machinists, and Leonard Woodcock of the Auto Workers threatened briefly to overturn the Administration's painfully constructed controls on wages and prices...