Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With little help from the Administration, which is maintaining a hands-off attitude, Grayson's commission has moderated pricing policies in three basic industries: autos, steel and coal. The commission's basic rule is that prices may be increased only to reflect added costs, minus any gains in workers' productivity-and then only if the price boosts do not fatten profit margins. Grayson has been flexible in applying this standard. Last week he allowed U.S. Steel an average price increase of 3.6%, in return for a promise that the company would not try to raise prices again...
...tasteless metaphor about a 24-hour pig slaughter house into the five paragraph "A Complete History of Germany and Japan." In another piece Brautigan sits in a Times Square movie house next to a cliched man, "fat, about fifty years old, balding sort of and his face was completely minus any human sensitivity." Brautigan compares him to a dog in the cartoon. Not only is the allusion completely minus any human sensitivity but it's thin on originality...
...formulate wage guidelines. The commission, composed of seven public members, could hardly lay down price rules until it knew what wage increases would be permitted in Phase II. At almost the last moment, the commission decided to let prices rise only enough to reflect actual increases in costs, minus any rises in workers' productivity-and then only if the price hikes do not fatten company profit margins. Some economists think that this tough-sounding rule will prove to be an administrative nightmare. Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, fears that many firms that maintain...
...commission ruled that price hikes in most industries must be limited to increased costs minus any gains in productivity, the amount that a single worker can produce in one hour. Thus in order to raise prices a businessman must be prepared to prove that 1) he faces increased outlays for labor or materials and 2) these rises will not be offset by productivity improvements. Productivity is difficult to measure in many industries, particularly services (TIME, Nov. 15), and the commission has not yet announced how it should be calculated by businessmen seeking price rises. Economists agree, however, that productivity generally...
...touchdown passes to John Hagerty and Gatto attest, but he followed the example of his predecessors and threw three interceptions while completing less than half his passes. For the second week in a row, Harvard's pass blocking was weak, leaving Crone unprotected four times for minus 43 yards...