Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Price fixing in the uranium market is illegal. But with the blessings of Frank Church and one-third of his Senate colleagues, 13,000 sugar farmers [June 12] are going to do essentially the same thing. I imagine that if Senator Church were queried about the interests of the average American, he would appropriately reply: "Let them eat cake...
...sugar farmers whom President Carter's advisers (and, apparently, TIME) are willing to assign to bankruptcy, produce 55% of this country's annual demand for sugar. They provide important protection for U.S. consumers against the instability of supply and wild price gyrations that characterize the world sugar market...
...many young Cubans, especially those with higher education, have difficulty finding work after they finish school, and they know a certificate of African service will help them on their return. Because of a postrevolutionary baby boom and the success of Castro's anti-illiteracy campaign, the Cuban job market is glutted. Concedes Minister of Education José Ramón Fernández Alvarez: "We are educating more people than we have jobs for immediately. The reason is that the majority of those who are graduating today could not have gone to university at all before the revolution...
...Steiger amendment seeks to cut the rate to no more than 25%, the level that prevailed prior to 1970. The bill was introduced in April by Wisconsin Republican William Steiger, who has attracted broad support with his argument that a lower rate would benefit everyone by stimulating the stock market and boosting capital investment, thereby creating jobs...
...against crow's feet and encroaching fat, coddles a toy poodle who whimpers against the sharp hissing of the monster diesels; a gaggle of paunchy businessmen, obviously chafing under the discomfort of the sand that still clings to their Coppertone-greasy skin, discusses the probable trends in tomorrow's market. No one quite notices the crowd of young blacks huddled against the newspaper-and-dirty-magazine stand, or feels the resentment in their stares...