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Fifteen days may or may not be enough time to resolve the tangled issues. Desperately trying to control inflation, the Carter Administration cannot afford to enlarge the average 6.5%-a-year pay boost; doing so would make it that much harder to restrain subsequent labor demands. Beyond that, the Postal Service, which is running a $700 million annual deficit, is threatened by growing competition from private carriers. If it has to raise the price of stamps, it will lose still more customers. Noted a participant in the talks: "The Postal Service did not need any importuning from the White House...
Looping around the neck like a reiterated threat of the garrote, a necktie can serve to restrain and discipline. That, at least, is the theory behind having little boys in private schools wear them; it doesn't always work. Neckties also represent a gesture of respect. A lawyer always advises his client to appear in court wearing a coat and tie. It shows that you have the deference to make yourself uncomfortable. Several years ago, a Florida judge cited a lawyer for contempt of court when the lawyer showed up wearing a gold medallion around his neck instead...
...those close to the President see a man wielding power who is struggling now as much with himself as with an angry world. How to get information? What sources to believe? Whom to consult? When to act? What to say? Which of his staff to unleash? Which to restrain...
...capability--such as in strategic nuclear warheads, where the U.S. leads 9000 to 4500. However, regaining dominant superiority in the strategic relationship over a determined adversary is impossible for either side. Instead, we have to adjust to the ambiguities of mutual deterrence and military equivalence, and have to restrain each side's weapons competition through balanced agreements which preserve our essential national security. --Sen. John C. Culver '54 [D-Iowa...
...example, he has new ideas for combating the problems of inflation, unemployment and energy. Among his suggestions for fighting inflation and stagflation are proposals for an 18-month moratorium on net federal cost raising measures, a system or tax incentives to restrain wage and price increases, and a reduction of the regressive sales taxes...