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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...developed several yardsticks to gauge the supply of money. The narrowest of these is a number that is known as M-1 and is the total of currency in circulation plus other immediately accessible funds in commercial bank checking accounts. As measured by M1, the U.S. money supply at present is about $380 billion. A broader yardstick is M2, which includes all of M-1 plus savings deposits, and shows a money supply of $935 billion...
After brandishing the stick, Brezhnev proffered a meager carrot. He said that the number of Soviet medium-range nuclear missiles aimed at Europe would be reduced if the NATO weapons were not deployed. He added that the U.S.S.R. would unilaterally withdraw up to 20,000 Soviet troops plus 1,000 tanks and other military hardware from East Germany within the next twelve months...
Employers simply cannot hand out the kind of raises required to keep all their staffers fully abreast of 13%-plus inflation. Because taxes absorb part of any increase, a firm seeking just to keep "whole" an employee earning $15,000 or more must boost his pay by 16% to 19% this year alone. If high inflation persists, further raises would be necessary in subsequent years. Yet a company that gave increases of this size would not only be violating the Administration's 7% pay guideline but might also risk cleaning out its treasury...
...decision took a long time to make," says the 6-ft. 1-in., 220-lb. Cornell sophomore. "I'm very interested in hotel-restaurant administration, and the business courses offered at Cornell are the best in the nation. Plus, I felt it wold be good experience playing under coach (Bob) Blackman...
This year's trip to Cornell was destined to be an order on the scale of a pilgrimage. After deciding that driving four hundred-plus miles to see Schoellkopt Field's polyurethane carpet was too much to ask of any sane being. I opted for the airplane route...