Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employed only 10 blacks in salaried positions out of a total of nearly 1600 G.E. workers in South Africa. The multinational corporation has made no real attempt to force the issue of apartheid regulation with the white minority government, as some other U.S. corporations have done. Essentially, G.E. plants maintain fully-segregated facilities and Africans may not supervise white employees in any area of the company...
...program includes no wage and price controls, no guidelines or targets for price and pay hikes ? which pleased many businessmen. Carter's economic advisers maintain that mandatory controls would not work. Some businessmen and economists doubted that Carter's voluntary program would have much impact on the current 6% rate of inflation, let alone enable him to reach his goal of slashing it by 2 percentage points by the end of 1979. But no one expected him to come up with a more effective plan. Said Harvard Economist Otto Eckstein, a member of the TIME Board of Economists...
...parts. Coal is too difficult to dig up and transport to give us energy in the amounts we need, nuclear fission is judged to be too dangerous, the technical breakthrough toward nuclear fusion that we hoped for never took place, and solar batteries are too expensive to maintain on the earth's surface in sufficient quantity...
...least the armies are gone-no one can afford to keep those expensive, energy-gobbling monstrosities. Some soldiers in uniform and with rifles are present in almost every still functioning nation, but only the United States and the Soviet Union can maintain a few tanks, planes and ships-which they dare not move for fear of biting into limited fuel reserves...
...have to be subjective to amass a billion dollar portfolio," Cann says. "It's an insoluble contradiction. As long as the University is involved in investment which is subjective by its very nature, trying to maintain intellectual freedom and objectivity within its own walls is impossible...