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...rhetoric, to consider cuts in Social Security payments. One plan tentatively accepted by both Domenici and Jones is to postpone for three months the cost of living adjustments scheduled for next July and then peg future COLAs at 2 or 3 percentage points below the consumer price index. All told, the entire bipartisan package would slash $80 billion off the CBO's projected $180 billion shortfall, enough to reassure the financial markets...
...been rising since February, leading to fears that the current 9% jobless rate may go even higher. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige predicts that one or two major corporations may fail before the current recession ends. The only good news was the second consecutive monthly decline in the producer price index, a measure of inflation...
...ceased spiraling upward, and in February they climbed at an annual rate of only 2.4%. Last week the Labor Department reported that wholesale, or producer, prices fell at an annual 1.7% rate during March, matching an equal decline in February, for the first such two-month drop in the index since...
These seemingly decisive rejections of Reagan's foreign policy, however, coexist with a widespread public attitude that the Soviet Union's military objectives are "offensive" as opposed to "defensive" (61% to 29%). More important, a new "volatility index" devised by the Yankelovich organization, which has been tested in previous polls, indicates that these opinions are easily subject to change. In addition to asking voters whether they favored or opposed a given proposition, the Yankelovich pollsters inquired how often voters discussed the issue, how deeply they felt it affected them, how easily they could change their minds and whether...
According to Yankelovich, the volatility index shows that strong majorities in favor of registering handguns (60%) and against the outlawing of abortion (56%) are based on firmly held opinions. The index suggests, on the other hand, that American opinion on aid to El Salvador is very volatile indeed, as are views about arms sales to Arab nations...