Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eurocommunism are likely to depend on the lead of the 1.7 million-member Italian party, which started it all in 1973 when Berlinguer launched his strategy of the "historic compromise." There is general agreement that the P.C.I, is entering a prolonged period of soul searching and internal debate. The main lines of the struggle are expected to be drawn between the hard-line left wing of the party, which has never been comfortable with Berlinguer's gradualism, and members of his own right wing who have argued for even more moderation...
Amid all this uncertainty, the Administration got a rare piece of good news on inflation. May's wholesale prices rose a modest .4%, vs. .9% in April, the smallest increase in nine months. The main reason: a drop in food prices, including beef, because of a decline in consumption. But food prices may resume their rise because crop-killing rains in the Midwest could tighten supplies of corn and wheat, and OPEC's continuing oil price rises will further fire up inflation...
...main hope of Washington's inflation fighters is that the United Rubber Workers, who are striking Uniroyal for an industry-wide settlement, eventually will accept a pay increase reasonably close to 7% annually. The U.R.W., which resumed negotiations last week, is seeking a three-year settlement of between 33% and 36%. No end of the strike is in sight...
...important to keep wages reasonable, but that alone will not stifle inflation. As Blumenthal noted last week, the main sources of that spiral are food, fuel and housing costs-none of which are covered by the guidelines. Thus the best thing the White House can do is to keep punching, take advantage of lucky breaks and hope that the slowdown will arrive in time to avoid any more radical, and risky, approaches...
...nothing to do with his inlaw, he soon becomes his unwitting accomplice. What follows is a nonstop series of shootouts, chase scenes and mishaps that catapult the heroes from suburban New Jersey to Manhattan's treacherous West 30s and finally to a banana republic so corrupt that its main drag is called United Fruit Boulevard. There are encounters with the daredevil Chinese pilots of Wong Airlines, a mad Latin dictator (Richard Libertini) and a full symphony orchestra conducted by Carmen Dragon...