Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story house with a Mediterranean-style courtyard, with electricity to power a TV set, a hi-fi and an air conditioner. Mrs. Mokhtari is proud of the honest work of her sons, who helped pay for these luxuries, but financial security remains elusive. The Mokhtaris were told that they must pay $36,000 to have their house connected to the water supply line because they were outside the Tehran municipal jurisdiction. "We've paid one-third of that, but we haven't been able to get three drops of water," she complains. Meanwhile, an apartment building...
Even if all these strategies were adopted overnight, speeding up productivity might well take a discouragingly long time. The '70s lag in investment and R. and D., in particular, will go on harming productivity well into the '80s. But the effort must be started. A long period of sluggish productivity would mean an era of slow growth, little or no rise in living standards, persistent unemployment and high inflation?just like the '70s, only worse...
...encountered when it carried out its successful deregulation of airfares last year. Alfred Kahn, as CAB chief, had to deal with only 26 airlines, and some of the biggest backed deregulation, judging correctly that lower fares would tempt more people to fly and actually increase their profits. The ICC must contend with 16,600 regulated truck lines-at least one in every congressional district, truckers like to point out-and most are united in the belief that lowering rates and letting new firms enter the business will not generate more cargo, but only cut profits for everybody. The Teamsters Union...
...their jobs this week, it could take as long as six months to bring the country's production back to an acceptable level. Oilmen actually say that if shortages of gasoline and other refined products are to be prevented from developing later this spring, the Iranian fields must start coming back on stream in the next six to eight weeks-a highly questionable prospect, given the country's political situation...
...evening is an amiable mixture of songs, dances and wisecracks seasoned with the rueful wisdom of age. Maxine Sullivan, whom one must not refrain from calling ageless, stops the clock and the show with a briskly resilient number called A Little Starch Left. An October-October romance between a carpenter (Peter Walker) and a woman (Sylvia Davis) whose husband is hospitalized and dying supplies the musical's bittersweet plot line. At show's end the pair sashay out of the Golden Days to share their sunset years, and on leaving the theater you may find your own step...