Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plant cost $23 million, about 10% more than a conventional factory of the same capacity. It includes the most up-to-date devices to monitor production and promote quality control...
Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns and Presidential Counsellor Kenneth Rush favor more Administration "jawboning" against big wage and price boosts. President Ford himself asked for and signed into law last week a bill creating a new Council on Wage and Price Stability, headed by Rush, that will monitor increases and decry those that seem excessive. It has no subpoena, suspension or rollback powers, but these could be added if the council proves ineffective. A surprising number of economists, ranging ideologically from Joseph Pechman, a former adviser to George McGovern, to Milton Friedman, onetime adviser to Barry Goldwater, predict that Ford...
...income people; the other provides $25.4 billion in aid to public elementary and secondary schools. Said Ford: "I suspect this is the first federal aid to education bill ever signed by a lefthanded President." The President also signed a bill that revived the Cost of Living Council to monitor wages and prices...
...asked Congress to resurrect by Labor Day the Cost of Living Council, a Government agency that once administered wage-price controls but died on June 30, two months after the controls. Ford's COLC-like one that Nixon proposed in his last weeks-would be empowered to monitor price and wage increases and officially decry those that seem excessive, but it would not be able to order those rises rolled back or even delayed...
...isolation. However, terHorst says that Ford supplements the summary by reading at least ten newspapers: the Washington Post and Star-News, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit News and Free Press, the Grand Rapids Press, the Baltimore Sun and the Christian Science Monitor. Also on his list are TIME, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report...