Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The abandonment of a firm pay guideline, if it occurs, would have broad implications for the economy, which is now delicately poised between two perils: even more inflation and deeper recession. Fresh harbingers of both of these threats appeared last week. The unemployment rate, which had dipped unexpectedly to 5.8...
Brookings Institution Economist Arthur Okun has a "nightmare vision" of a major employer without company-wide unions such as IBM or Du Pont announcing some day that it was starting cost-of-living allowances in order to "keep the union organizers off their front lawns." Okun warns that if such...
The President's broadside was recklessly inaccurate, and embarrassed White House staffers had to rush to issue "clarifications," The trillion dollars, a White House aide explained, is actually the amount of additional oil revenues-not profits-that the companies will receive as a result of decontrol of domestic crude...
Some airline executives argue that deregulation has helped the carriers cope with runaway costs. Insists John Zeeman, vice president of passenger marketing at United: "If we did not have deregulation we would have been hurt worse. We have problems catching costs but we are now more flexible and can better...
The production is so slick that it scarcely matters that some of the acting is not. When they think about it, the two daughters-in-law practice their accents, droppin' g's like sure-'nuff Texans. When they do something besides thinking, like parading around the swimming...