Word: letup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burns has not abandoned his long-term goal of holding the increase to a moderate 5% to 6% a year. The Administration, despite hot political criticism, is convinced that it must let the economy suffer along until there are some signs more convincing than those now apparent of a letup in inflation...
There is little mystery as to why the U.S. consumer is giving Detroit such a rough time. As a Detroit industry analyst puts it: "The price of a car sounds just too damn high." Coming off three record-sales years, some letup was expected. But the gravity of the current situation was unforeseen. With the late-summer announcement that 1975-model prices would jump an unprecedented average of $400 per car, buyers flocked to showrooms to make down payments for late 1974s at what seemed to be bargain prices...
...combat it has been, with scarcely a letup since he took over a year ago from the compromised H.R. Haldeman. "During this time of repeated shelling of the White House, Al has never lost his composure," says Leonard Garment, assistant to the President. "He has dealt with the problems of the wounded with both compassion and detachment." In contrast to the closed-door policy of Haldeman, Haig has made the White House more accessible and a more pleasant place in which to work; there is at least a modicum of grace under ferocious pressure. "It's fun to deal...
...best that the world's governments can promise their citizens is that inflation later this year will abate somewhat?maybe. In the U.S., for example, the Nixon Administration is predicting that inflation will slow to 5% to 6% by year's end, with the best of breaks: a letup in consumer demand caused by a business slowdown, a record crop this fall and an easing in petroleum prices. Even that less than comforting scenario, and similar ones projected in other nations, could go awry if labor unions force fat settlements. In the U.S., AFL-CIO President George Meany and other...
...Nhut, located in Saigon. He orders as many as 80 air strikes a day in Tay Ninh and Binh Long provinces north of Saigon near the Cambodian border, where the Communists are believed to have heavy equipment. Throughout South Viet Nam, Thieu's artillery thud away with out letup. "The South Vietnamese are unloading ship after ship of 105-mm. and 155-mm. artillery shells," says an ICCS member in Danang. "And God knows they need it. They shoot off that much on Sundays alone...