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...submarine-launched ballistic missiles and long-range bombers. Under this overall ceiling, some classes of weapons would be subject to further restrictions. Perhaps the most important would limit both countries to 1,320 strategic launchers carrying several warheads and known as MIRVS (multiple, independently targeted re-entry vehicles). To restrain the introduction of new weapons systems, the treaty would allow each side to develop and deploy only one new type of lCBM...
...month later, the state of Washington charged ARCO and 9 other firms with conspiring to restrain trade in most areas of the crude and refined oil business...
...this point." Housing starts fell from 2 million in December to 1.4 million in February, and retail sales showed little or no growth in January and February. The presence of Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller at the conference suggested that the Administration might be considering ways to further restrain consumer credit. The President was granted authority in 1969 to ask the Fed to apply such restrictions during periods of high inflation. Yet these would primarily affect the buying of homes, cars and other expensive items, sales that are already beginning to slow...
Amid all the alarm over multiplying profits and double-digit inflation, the White House is facing what could be a make-or-break challenge to its Stage II efforts to restrain union pay demands. The crunch will come in its attempt to hold the critical Teamsters contract settlement within the Administration's "voluntary" guideline limits of 7% a year in wage and benefit increases. On the 13th floor of a hotel overlooking Arlington National Cemetery, union and management negotiators have been bargaining in earnest for more than a week to shape a new master freight agreement for the Teamsters...
Second, South African laws, customs, and trade union work rules restrain whatever initiatives U.S. corporations may undertake to implement reform...