Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technical monographs to placate her vociferous peers, but more often than not producing books for popular consumption. True to Boaz, she examined sex roles in different cultures, rejecting the idea that one predetermined set of universal roles can be applied to all cultures indiscriminately. However, she did not limit herself to discussing sex roles or exotic cultures. She voiced opinions and passed judgments on any number of things in Western society, from marijuana to marriage, and her outspokenness drew more fire from critics who thought she should stick to anthropology...
Generally, the Administration has won the reluctant cooperation of business. Last week General Motors and AT&T announced that they would comply with the guidelines. Increases in steel prices and railroad rates have been held within the basic standard, which calls for companies to limit price rises over the next year to half a percentage point below their average annual rises in 1976-77. Still higher increases may be made by companies with special problems, like rapidly rising raw material costs, so long as their pretax profit margins do not go above the average for the best...
...labor side, most union leaders angrily reject the 7% limit on wage-and-benefit raises. They note that the increased costs of maintaining jealously guarded benefits, such as health insurance and pensions, would eat up most, and in some cases all, of the allowable raise without adding a dime to paychecks. Amid cries for more flexibility, the Administration stumbled about for several weeks before it indicated last week that workers would not be charged for higher costs of maintaining present benefit levels...
Even with these fixes, union chiefs reject the guidelines, which they contend limit wages much more rigidly than prices. Last week the 22,000-member Western Pulp and Paper Workers sued in federal court in Portland, Ore., to have the standards declared illegal. The charge: the program is mandatory, and the President has no congressional authority to impose it. United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser insists that the only way to win labor's support would be for Congress to enact the President's proposal granting tax rebates to obedient union members and other groups if the inflation...
...changed, at least improved. In the past few years, after a minimum of haggling, the graduate school administration has granted the Dramat the stage space it requested. But, as Cosmo A. Catalano Jr., technical adviser at the drama school, points out, "The Dramat knows enough now to limit their requests." They've learned to play the game...