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...steps I have ordered today are those that are necessary now," Carter announced in yesterday's nationwide television broadcast, adding, "Other actions may become necessary if these steps do not produce the prompt release of the hostages...
Carter declined to define "prompt" but said a continuing refusal to free the hostages "will involve increasingly heavy costs to the government of Iran...
...said Schultze, "will continually be wrestling" with high inflation throughout the 1980s. C.W.A. President Glenn Watts asserted that American workers for the next decade would have to accept wage boosts "at least 2½% lower" than the rise in prices, out of fear that larger increases in pay would prompt still more inflation. Concluding the gloomy chorus, John T. Dunlop, who sets the voluntary wage guidelines that the Administration asks labor to follow, said that it might take "a decade or two" before workers' pay catches up with the present "enormous rises in living costs...
...First National Bank is instituting a $20 fee for the previously gratis Visa card. Such fees may enable banks to weed out unused cards, which now represent about $25 billion in outstanding credit lines, as well as so-called "non-revolvers," who pay their bills on time. Prompt payers get free credit without generating any revenue for the bank...
...price increases that the OPEC cartel may decree. But the fee will not spur all that much conservation: a reduction of only 100,000 bbl. a day the first year, by Carter's estimate, in petroleum imports that now average 8 million bbl. a day. In order to prompt really significant conservation, a gasoline tax on the order of the 50?-per-gal. bite that Republican John Anderson has been proposing might well be required...