Word: holding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preacher's other techniques of salvation--gentle persuasion and cajolery--talents the President did not use to great effect in the last session of Congress. Before his plan has a chance of success, he will have to convince Congress to accept his "lean and austere" budget, Labor to hold down its wage demands, and Big Business to limit its price hikes. Along with miscellaneous other programs, these are the steps that Carter sees as necessary to curb rising prices...
...most recent press conference, one reporter asked the president to react to the fourth-quarter profits of the oil companies which reached 48 per cent, 72 per cent, 44 per cent and 134 per cent in light of the president's request that workers in the oil industry hold their wage demands to seven per cent. Carter answered that, like all good Americans, he would "like to see a good balance between prices and profits...
...IDEA BEHIND Carter's wage and price guidelines is good, though the price increases allowed to industry are not exactly miniscule (they are asked to hold their price hikes to a half percentage point below the average rise in 1976-77). If corporations are setting their prices at inflationary levels, the government should intervene. But the President has acknowledged that he has no tangible means of enforcing them except through the pressure of public opinion. He can't encourage a consumer boycott of violators or withhold federal contracts from them because it would be over-stepping his presidential authority...
...Republican Club will hold elections on Feb. 13. Achin said the president's race may boil down to two factions warring over the issues on which she and Duey disagree...
...walked down the village's main street, a 10-year-old boy flashed me the thumbs-up sign and groaned, "Ayyyyyyyyy," a perfect imitation of his new hero, "the Fonz." American culture has also intruded its way into the French language, producing French-accented words like week-end, hold-up, stop, gas-oil, and blue-jeans...