Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion-a-year trade imbalance with Japan, the U.S. is anxious to sell the Japanese some products that are now kept out by quotas-feeder cattle and oranges, for example. But the Japanese contend that they have already done the U.S. a favor by putting a voluntary limit on textile exports to America. No firm commitments were made during the meetings between Connally and the Japanese negotiators; trade talks will resume later this month...
...odors, HCP has been used in many cosmetics, shampoos, soaps and almost all deodorants, notably the "feminine hygiene" variety. Now the FDA has served notice that within 60 days it will ban all further manufacture of cosmetics with even minute amounts of HCP as an active ingredient and will limit the use of skin cleansers containing more than .75% HCP (meaning, principally, pHisoHex and hyperpHaze) to hospital and prescription use. Medicated soaps like Dial will be reviewed by one of the panels screening over-the-counter drugs...
Many experts believe that deficits have been pushed perilously close to their manageable limit, and that if they continue, chronic inflation is certain to flare up. Says Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "The budget has begun to get substantially out of control...
Tougher Stand. A stiffening attitude is also evident on the Pay Board. In two previous rulings, the board's five business representatives sided with its five labor representatives in approving coal miners' and railway signalmen's contracts that were far above its 5.5% limit. Stung by criticism that they were knuckling under to labor to avoid strikes, the businessmen are now taking a tougher stand. They plan automatically to challenge all wage settlements above 7% in the second and third years of long-term contracts signed before the August freeze. Getting such boosts approved has been...
Significantly, the Pay Board's business members also joined with the public members in refusing to approve a settlement granting aerospace workers a 12% wage rise next year. Though the board adjourned without reaching a decision, the business members made it clear that they want to limit the aerospace workers to an 8% increase; labor representatives are holding out for 12%. The public members are suggesting a mediating 10%. If labor is beaten down, an aerospace strike could erupt; but with unemployment already so high in the industry, there is a big question as to what-if anything...