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...problems are two other factors. One is that, in the words of Audrey Freedman, senior research associate of the nonprofit Conference Board, "the coming year opens a three-year bargaining cycle dominated by fear-on the part of all employees, union and nonunion alike-that inflation will overwhelm wage increases." Thus union members think that they ought to get the biggest raises possible to protect themselves against an inexorable rise in prices. The Administration has sought to counter that fear by ballyhooing a proposal to Congress to grant income-tax rebates to workers whose wages rise slower than prices...
...resignation, with every form of media jumping on each set of gruesome revelations and/or body counts, screaming them out to a public drooling for more, repulsed and fascinated at the same time. Indeed, the publicity surrounding the event would obscure anything less ghoulish, but in this case, nothing can overwhelm the awesome image of nearly 1000 men, women and children (perhaps) choosing to die together...
...drop opened frightening prospects. As Blumenthal stated on TV last week, an endless fall in the dollar's value would destroy any chance that Stage II could succeed; the rise in import prices would overwhelm the most valiant struggles that companies and unions
...pretty silly stuff, but the chief peculiarity of this film, based on Ira Levin's bestseller, is the expensive sobriety with which it has been mounted. Director Schaffner seems determined to overwhelm our disbelief with production values-a strategy that frequently threatens to succeed. To begin with, there is the fascination of watching Gregory Peck, Mr. Integrity himself, playing Mengele. He sports a nasty little mustache and a stiff posture, and seems to be enjoying his change of face and pace. But no more than Laurence Olivier, no less, relishes playing the old Jew. Wise and crusty, frail...
...almost irresistibly attractive," Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen (D-Texas), vice-chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said yesterday. "But it would obviously overwhelm our supply capacity and lead to roaring inflation, increase consumer prices and run up interest rates...