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...suit is still pending, and hiring of minority-group members has, until this past week, been delayed by a court order to restrain hiring until the outcome of the suit is established...
...rate is checked, this planet's 3.9 billion inhabitants will double in number within 35 years. India's 2.2% annual growth rate will double the country's current population of 596 million by the year 2000. The apparent inability, or unwillingness, of most poor countries to restrain their profligacy has embittered many agricultural economists. Nobel Laureate Borlaug complains that the higher yields of the miracle seeds were meant to give the underdeveloped nations some time to reduce their population growth and begin upgrading their citizens' nutrition. Instead, he says, "Our efforts to buy time have been...
...governments of all Western industrial nations face a socioeconomic dilemma: in order to fight inflation and the social disruption that it causes they must restrain demand-and risk triggering a recession that would stir even more social unrest. Last week France went further than any other nation has gone to defuse that danger. At the urging of President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the Patronat, or federation of French employers, agreed with the country's five major unions on a new plan that in effect will guarantee a full year's pay to any French worker laid...
...every turn, Ford found himself fighting a two-front war. Clamping down hard to restrain the inflation threatening the financial fabric of the nation could tip the economy into a deep recession...
...which union leaders have pledged to seek salary increases only if they are needed to maintain their members' standard of living. So far, the social contract has not been tested by any major labor-management dispute. Many are skeptical whether Wilson's policy of persuasion alone could restrain wages if subjected to a series of important contract talks-such as the traditional autumn-round. Any attempt to put teeth into the social contract, however, would almost certainly split the Labor Party. Economist Peter Jay warns that an incomes policy "can be trapped like a billiard ball between...