Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month period. (At the official exchange rate, $8,500 buys 5,903 rubles.) Despite Crawford's protestations of innocence, along with what Western court observers called an unusually spirited defense by his Soviet lawyer, the defendant was found guilty and given a five-year suspended sentence. No less a court observer than Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev had predicted as much in a recent Moscow conversation with visiting California Oilman Armand Hammer...
...workings: the one class does not fear it much, and the other does not trust it. A mugger leaves a victim crippled, life blighted, and bound to ruinous expenses for treatment. Through plea bargaining and parole indulgences, the attacker emerges from his "punishment" in a matter of months or less, to resume his career. The social contract gets badly tattered in its passage through such a system...
...jarring price rises. The President has exhorted workers and managers to hold wage-price increases below the average for the past two years, but aides now think that the "deceleration" program is too vague. Many want Carter to urge that all wage settlements be held to 8% or less...
...price guideli-, er, standards might vary from company to company. One idea is to demand that each company raise prices 1% to 1.5% less than it did last year...
Whether the biggest airline consolidation since the early 1960s will actually take place may not be known for months. The deal still has to be approved by Pan Am and National shareholders, the Civil Aeronautics Board and President Carter. CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn fears that his policy of less regulation and more competition among airlines may be spurring a lot of panic mergers that would lead to less rather than more competition. The CAB is known to have preferred that Pan Am build up its own domestic base instead of taking over another airline's system, but the board...