Word: ince
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...session with Cabinet members and advisers to hammer out the energy plan that the President will present to the nation this week. Even before its release, the plan generated violent debate. As preparation for that debate and to get the ideas of business, labor, political and environmental leaders, Time Inc. convened a special energy conference in Williamsburg, Va., last fortnight...
...prices. Many basic products, including aluminum, rubber and various plastics, are getting more expensive all the time -and manufacturers have been moved, or at least tempted, to reflect the real or anticipated higher cost of supplies in their own prices. Take James Brownell, vice president of Florida-based Weatherking, Inc., maker of air conditioners: "I have seen in the past several months price increases from my vendors slip upward from five to seven percent. It scares the daylights...
...marketed by the Itasca division of Winnebago Industries, Inc., the Forest City, Iowa, motor-home makers...
Still Jittery. The pace of business spending is quickening somewhat this year. The Commerce Department estimates that capital outlays will rise 11.7% in 1977, v. last year's 6.8%. Other projections are more optimistic. A survey of 307 companies by Merrill Lynch Economics, Inc., a subsidiary of the nation's largest stockbroker, shows them planning to increase spending an average 16.3%. But, discounting for inflation of 5% to 6%, even the most bullish forecasts would not return "real" business spending to its 1974 peak levels. Says Chase Econometrics Associates President Michael Evans...
Taping Baretta. Not in the opinion of Universal City Studios, the movie and TV show producing arm of MCA Inc., or of Walt Disney Productions. They are suing Sony, its American subsidiary, an advertising agency, a few retail stores and one Betamax owner in a federal court in California. The complaint seeks to prevent further manufacture and sale of the Betamax, and to force impounding and destruction of Betamax tapes of programs owned by the plaintiffs. Universal, which initiated the suit and invited Disney to join, argues that taping TV shows or movies violates U.S. copyright law, even if viewers...