Word: mille
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eric Clapton is just too good for his audience's good--it makes him self-indulgently reliant on wild and wonderful improvisations that lend themselves ill to your run-of-the-mill Top 40 song...
...example of this process Schumacher cities the example of an African textile mill. The firm's manager proudly assured Schumacher that his factory was as highly automated as any in the world. It has to be, in order to produce a product that could compete in world markets. As a result, it provided almost no local employment. Even worse, the raw material (cotton fiber) had to be imported, because the local product was too short for the machine to spin into top-quality yarn...
Contrary to many expectations, the 6% price increases that all major steelmakers posted on about 40% of their shipments in early December seem to be sticking, despite heavy political flak. Mill executives say that the real test of whether the boosts will last in the market will not come until January. But the increases have survived criticism by President Ford's Council on Wage and Price Stability and publicly voiced "concern" by President-elect Jimmy Carter...
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates, a 6% increase in steel-mill products drives up the Wholesale Price Index in the following month by only one-tenth of a percentage point. Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME's Board of Economists, believes increases in the wages of public employees, energy prices, "maybe even the Russian wheat sale" are more inflationary than steel boosts...
...longtime political foe of Gandhi's, Goenka is a wily industrialist who owns 17 other Indian dailies besides the Express; they have a combined circulation of about 1 million. Since he opposed Gandhi's adoption of sweeping emergency powers in 1975, her government has seized his jute mill in Calcutta, deprived the Express group of government advertising and ordered India's nationalized banks to deny him credit...