Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Commercial production of insulin in large quantities might hold down the price of insulin as the number of diabetics increases, and would greatly benefit diabeties who are allergic to the insulin that is now isolated from slaughtered cows and pigs. Gilbert added...
...financial western: the new gun who arrived in Washington to rally the citizenry against the enemy, much as the Texas Rangers rode in to restore law-and-order in the Borger of his youth. He quickly put the Fed on a course of raising interest rates sharply, to hold back the inflationary growth of money supply and to keep dollars at home. In private debates and public remarks, Miller has pleaded with the White House, of which he is independent, to launch a determined anti-inflationary policy of its own. Neither his actions nor his words differed greatly from those...
...main elements are now familiar: the White House is to veto inflationary spending bills, reduce the cost to business of Government regulation and aim to start an era of tighter budgets, declining deficits and moderate, less inflationary economic growth. Meanwhile, the Government will plead with business and labor to hold price and wage increases below the average of the past two years. All this fits Miller's ideas so well that there is speculation that he and Carter have struck a bargain under which the Administration practices tax-and-spending restraint and Miller refrains from a stern hold-down...
...costly?the President gave in to the regulators. The Administration has won a few mostly symbolic pledges from some steel, aluminum-and automakers to limit price rises and executive salary increases. More dangerously, labor has refused to promise wage restraint. Meany calls Bosworth, a prune pleader for a wage hold-down, "that skinny redheaded...
...song like Sunday in the Park is a musical idyl to the garment workers' one day off, where lovers hold hands, mothers stroll with their tots and old people bask on sunny benches. The park has to be Central Park, since Pins and Needles is very New Yorky in tone and allusion. Now people still do those things in Central Park, but its current "social significance" is that it is a place one enters at the risk of being mugged or mangled by young thugs armed with baseball bats...