Word: promptings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...February and March of this year. Consumers are deeply afraid of both further inflation and future recession. Ironically, these very ideas are making people rush to buy appliances, cars and houses before prices go even higher and before bad times come; such scare buying tends to prompt exactly the price boosts that consumers fear. Another index of confidence in the economy, the stock market, also took a pounding last week; the Dow Jones industrial average fell 41 points...
Ironically, if the new rules do prompt a flood of U.S. investment, the outflow will temporarily worsen the enormous American balance of payments deficit with Japan. Profits from the investments, however, eventually would shrink the deficit again. In any case, the liberalization is welcome, and should help soothe the often acrimonious relations between the two mightiest economies in the non-Communist world. It will constitute a long-overdue recognition of reality: Japan's economy has grown far too powerful either to need or deserve protection...
...Washington, a State Department spokesman told North Viet Nam that if it "damped down the war in Cambodia," there would be a "prompt and quite positive response on our part...
Wallace said yesterday she hoped the Lowell protest and boxing's frequent injuries would prompt the Athletic Department to end boxing intramurals...
...teen-agers has picked up support even among some liberal economists, who believe that forcing employers to pay youths as much as adults only discourages them from hiring the 14% of youngsters aged 16 to 19 who are jobless. Labor leaders argue that establishing a teen-age differential would prompt some employers to fire adult workers and hire youths to replace them. Brennan did propose that a teen-ager's pay be upped to the full adult minimum wage after 13 weeks on the job, but he offered no plan to prevent an employer from hiring a youngster...