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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's inflation program, which calls not only for executives to hold their own pay raises this year to less than 5% but also for companies to keep their 1978 price increases below the average of the past two years. A scattering of the nation's largest companies have agreed to cooperate on the question of executive salary increases, but until Bethlehem, only a few, such as Kaiser Aluminum and Ford Motor Co., have actually put a lid on prices as well...
...cost of the coal-strike settlement, and an earlier, 5.5% rise in February. Even if the company abides by its pledge, its 1978 price increases will still total more than the industry's 8.5% average in both 1976 and 1977. Meanwhile, the nation's three other largest steelmakers-U.S. Steel, Republic and National-last week wasted no time in trotting out follow-the-leader price increases of their own, and none saw fit to promise anything at all about additional rises later this year...
Some OPEC countries have already made this formula work with their oil. But the U.S. is by far the largest producer of the other most needed resource: food. Clearly, it must use its farm resources both to finance its oil imports and to help feed a hungry world...
...prime reason for Japan's diminishing expectations is the increasing annoyance of the U.S. and Europe with the country's policy of saturating world markets with its goods, while tightly controlling access to its home market-the third largest after the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The result: Japan piled up a trade surplus of $17.3 billion last year, $8.1 billion of it with the U.S. alone...
...wind of a late-spring chill bites through Philadelphia's Franklin Field, but it cannot dull the excitement of the moment. For the first time in the 84-year history of the Penn Relays, the world's largest and oldest meet of its kind, an afternoon of women's track and field competition is scheduled. The infield shimmers with color, a kaleidoscope of uniforms and warmup suits. One thousand college and high school athletes jog slowly back and forth, stretch and massage tight muscles, crouch in imaginary starting blocks, huddle with coaches for last-minute strategy sessions, or loll...