Word: holdback
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Though some coaches encourage holdbacks, many have doubts. Says Ray Latoof, head coach at New Orleans' De La Salle High School: "In some cases, it might help, but many parents have delusions of grandeur." Buddy Windle, head coach at Georgia's Murray County High, is even blunter: "A lot of kids are burned out with football by the time they get to high school. Of twelve players in our senior class who were held back, only four are still on the team. And for every holdback, there's another kid who didn't even come...
...holdback on government expenditures close to last year's level, to be accomplished partly by asking NATO for help in paying the $182 million annual cost of maintaining British troops in West Germany. The government will also freeze wages in the nationalized industries to hold spending in line and avoid another round of inflationary wage rises. Lloyd expressed the rather wishful hope that private industry and labor would follow suit...
...present. More dollars would merely put him in a higher income-tax bracket. Thus, the average farmer held back from market more wheat than usual (near Larned, one farmer kept his entire crop-about $175,000 worth at last week's prices-in storage). Normally the Kansas holdback, a form of insurance against a poor yield the next year, is about 30% of crop. This year elevators and farm bins are clogged with about 150 million bushels of wheat-50% of the crop and more than one-fourth of the breadgrains the U.S. hopes it can send to Europe...
...less on what the public bought over the counters and more on what industry needed. Pricewise, the brakes were off production. The dislocations on metals which had crippled manufacture of batteries, wiring and parts for autos and other products could now be adjusted-at a price (see BUSINESS). The holdback of many production and consumer items was certain to end-as it had in food and many textiles. Business in general did not look for runaway prices; no smart merchant or manufacturer wanted to price himself out of his market...
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