Word: mettler
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...group's poverty rate is edging downward (from 13.9% in 1978 to 12.4% last year). One type of means test would cut off benefits for recipients above a certain income level. "There's a big distinction between entitlements for poor people and entitlements for everybody," says Ruben Mettler, chairman of TRW. Another suggested method to get entitlement costs under control would be to reduce the cost-of-living adjustment from 100% of the consumer price index...
...report warns that the budget deficit is "heading in the wrong direction," and will reach $177 billion, $10 billion more than the Reagan Administration's latest estimate. "I don't buy the esoteric economic arguments that budget deficits aren't so bad," said TRW Chairman Ruben Mettler. "The deficit absolutely must be dealt with...
...Ruben F. Mettler, 57. As a young aeronautical engineer working for Ramo-Wooldridge Corp. in the 1950s, Mettler supervised the development of Pioneer I, the first satellite launched by a private firm. He is now chairman of TRW, the aerospace and automotive giant that resulted when Ramo-Wooldridge merged with Thompson Products. Mettler heads the Roundtable's employment task force...
Business and union leaders have joined together to form a new labor-management group with the help of Harvard Professor John Dunlop, who was President Ford's Secretary of Labor. The Roundtable's Garvin will head a management contingent that will also include Evans, Wriston and Mettler. The alliance will search for ways to create new jobs, boost industrial productivity and bolster U.S. competitiveness in world markets...