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Also boosting the cost of warships, of course, have been the advanced weapons, data processing centers and more comfortable accommodations that have become standard on the vessels. In the case of submarines, part of the price hike is because of the replacement of diesel engines by nuclear generators...
...steelmakers from following U.S. Steel in its attempt to raise prices far beyond what would have been justified by the settlement won by striking coal miners. His tactic-phoning U.S. Steel's competitors and persuading them to announce smaller increases-forced U.S. Steel to roll back its own hike. Bosworth's 20 COWPS officials have now begun gathering cost data to give the council a clear picture of just how much prices can be hiked by any major industry without speeding up inflation...
...Labor), Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais, and Robert Fabre, head of the Left Radical Party that had been allied with the Socialists and Communists in the elections. Séguy's "demands" came straight out of the handbook of inflation: across-the-board salary increases, including a 37% hike in the minimum wage to $520 a month, and increases in pensions and other social benefits. Marchais spent an hour with Giscard, pleading, he said, on behalf of "millions of workers who have reached the limit of their endurance." Afterward, the Communist leader declared: "I am convinced that the [center...
Protesters attributed the decline to a belief by students that they could do nothing to prevent the hike and said the futility grew from a meeting last week between students and B.U. President John R. Silber, during which Silber explained the reasons for the hike...
Johan A. Madson, dean of student life at B.U., said yesterday the B.U. administration sent letters two weeks ago to all B.U. students explaining the reasons for the tuition hike...