Word: informative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bargaining sessions switched from the formal banquet hall to half-a-dozen or so smoke-filled suites where the various oil ministers were trying to strike deals and line up support. At 2 a.m. on Friday, Valentin Hernándes, the amiable Venezuelan oil minister, telephoned waiting reporters to inform them that OPEC had agreed to disagree...
...guidelines that would set numerical standards. What kind of wage-price policy does that leave? Okun suggests a series of "prayer meetings" at which Administration officials will urge business and labor leaders in general terms to make sacrifices for the sake of noninflationary growth. He also forecasts a highly informal "prenotification" standard−a request that businessmen and labor leaders inform the new President privately of planned wage and price hikes and discuss their justification in advance. Pechman, director of economic studies at Brookings, urges that Carter appoint a new chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability...
...shown a flair for quickly rounding up two or three people qualified to speak on a subject in the headlines. Often their guests do not have big names or even prepossessing camera personalities-they are the kind of people you find on panels at seminars-but the broadcasts often inform because the hosts have the courage to be serious...
...national labor laws while violating them in spirit. The consultants advised supervisors not to threaten employees who voiced pro-union sentiments, since such threats would violate National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rules. At the same time the consultants instructed supervisors to present the administration's viewpoint and to inform employees when the administration feels union claims to be unjustified. According to Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin '51, director of the hospital and associate professor of Medicine, the union makes baseless claims "virtually all the time...
President-elect Carter has promised to reevaluate thoroughly U.S. military and political commitments to South Korea. Carter should make good on this pledge early in his term. In addition Carter should inform foreign governments that the U.S. will not tolerate foreign interference in U.S. domestic politics. He should back up this policy by proscribing FBI involvement in foreign intelligence agencies' U.S. operations and by ordering the FBI to monitor closely the activities of U.S.-based foreign intelligence operatives...