Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public attitudes conducted for TIME in mid-July by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., the New York-based public-opinion research firm. For comparison purposes, a similar study had been made in late April and early May. The report is the first of a series called TIME Soundings, which will monitor a number of political indicators as the country approaches the 1976 presidential election. (The methods and definitions used are spelled out in the box on the following two pages.) The report also provides a sharp profile of the America that Gerald Ford inherited upon Rich ard Nixon's abdication...
...temper and outlook of Americans. Soundings consists of a series of political and social indicators that were developed for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc. The report differs from more traditional opinion polls in two respects: 1) Soundings not only measures shifts in public opinion but also tries to monitor the underlying trends that produce sea changes in public attitudes, and 2) the indicators are based on an amalgam of responses to hundreds of different questions...
...Kremlin (as it is for the U.S.). Russia's Nicosia embassy is larger than any of its embassies in Cairo, Teheran and Beirut. A sophisticated communications center links the Cyprus embassy with Moscow and the Soviet Mediterranean fleet as well as with two Russian spy ships that monitor radio traffic off the Israeli coast. The entire operation would almost certainly cease if Sampson remained President of Cyprus...
...thing, the President-possibly acting through a revived Cost of Living Council-should monitor wage-price increases in key industries with a baleful eye and demand from Congress stand-by authority to roll back those that are far out of line. Even liberal economists are generally reluctant to go back to comprehensive wage-price controls. But in a highly inflationary climate, the Government must try to counter the temptation for unions and companies to push for the biggest increases that their raw economic power would temporarily command. Indeed, many economists fear that high wage demands are about to replace shortages...
...resurrected Cost of Living Council or some other body should also monitor the Government's own price behavior. As economists tirelessly point out, Government departments and regulatory agencies, in an effort to please narrow constituencies, often adopt policies that spur rather than slow inflation. For example, the Agriculture Department is now buying up $100 million worth of "excess" beef and pork in a deliberate effort to keep prices paid to farmers and feed-lot operators from dropping. Federal regulatory agencies often set railroad, truck and barge freight rates high enough to protect the most inefficient carriers from competitive damage...