Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office for a Saudi prince? A corner suite for the president of a FORTUNE 500 company? No, it's all part of a million-dollar face-lift planned for the eleventh-floor offices of Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and about 100 top-ranking city employees. Since the offices had not been redecorated in 25 years, the city council had no hesitation in finding money in the 1978-79 budget of $1.5 billion to feather the mayor's nest. Extravagant? "I don't know a damn thing about carpeting," says Young. "Whether it comes from New Zealand...
...distant smile of the past months could not hide all the hurt in his eyes from the rising national doubts about his competence. As Americans cheer his Camp David achievement, Jimmy Carter with luck and wisdom could be born again a second time in a way that could lift this nation as well as himself. Men in public service are nourished by justified public acclaim. Carter's time has at last come...
...hotter disagreement came over both the form and extent of tax cuts for companies and investors. In itself that marks a profound shift in tax philosophy. Past cuts have been aimed pri marily at giving consumers more after-tax dollars to spend, in the hope that their buying would lift the economy; business spending to build new plants, modernize machinery and introduce new products was expected to follow automatically. But investment now is very low, and the absorbing question of tax policy has become how to design cuts to spur the largest rise in investment. Or, to put it another...
...three R's, singly or in combination, have been shown to lift productivity in large companies such as General Motors, Texas Instruments and IBM, as well as medium-size firms. Little-known Lincoln Electric of Cleveland gives productivity bonuses that come close to equaling regular wages. One result is that productivity has risen so fast that since 1934 prices for Lincoln's products have increased only one-fifth as much as the consumer price index. Professor Grayson sees that as good proof of his thesis that higher productivity can whip inflation...
...which goes to show that in politics, appearances matter more than reality. The natural gas bill is not a panacea, or even a part of one, for American energy ills. All the bill will do is raise gas prices incrementally over a seven-year period, and then lift price controls entirely in 1985. Controlled interstate gas currently sells for $1.50 per thousand cubic feet (MCF), while unregulated interstate runs about $1.95 per MCF; in 1985, the price for all gas will...