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...least $3 billion a year while preserving at most 69,000 jobs for American autoworkers. The FTC estimates that those steps would raise the price of a $7,000 Japanese car in this country by at least $500. Fewer imports would also reduce competition and allow U.S. automakers to hike the prices of their vehicles...
Facing already large tax increases, the school committee was unwilling to grant large pay increases this year. And faced with double-digit inflation, the Cambridge Teachers Association (CTA) was demanding a big hike; last week, the membership even authorized a strike if the school committee didn't give...
...production in Iran and Iraq could cause a rise in world oil prices of 50% above its original projections by the end of 1981. Since petroleum prices are extremely sensitive to any long-term reduction in world oil supplies, a shortfall in Iranian and Iraqi crude could hike the contract cost of a barrel of oil from its current $32 to about...
Within minutes of the city manager's announcement, the council voted on a proposed 8-per-cent pay increase for the department heads and non-union supervisors. Five councilors supported the hike--enough to keep the proposal alive--but one shy of the number needed to appropriate the money...
This year's autumn corn harvest is down 16% from 1979's large crop, and the lower yield has already pushed prices above the $3-per-bu. level, vs. $2.45 for the same period last year. Ranchers, also suffering from the drought and fearing a hike in the price of their prime feedstuff, sent more of their cattle to slaughter earlier in the summer in order to save on feeding them. Initially, this depressed beef prices, but the long-term effect will be to deplete the herds, reduce supply and make meat more expensive later. The production...