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...issue holds such potential for further damaging labor's reputation as inflation. Though Meany has called inflation the worst enemy of workers, he has opposed every Administration call for wage restraint, while offering no proposals of his own. Jimmy Carter and his aides are furious because the AFL-CIO would not support the President's bill to put mandatory limits on hospital revenues and thus costs. They argue persuasively that the bill would have benefited the great majority of union members: the higher that hospital bills rise and the more that employers have to pay in medical-insurance premiums...
...film's only ostensibly solid citizen, Jones shows at least some restraint. Then again, anyone would look calm playing opposite Dunaway. With her bulging, teary eyes and fluttery voice, this actress is a one-woman band of neurotic gestures. It is a tiresome performance that will be particularly grating on anyone who has seen the mannerisms previously in Chinatown and Network. Dunaway does, however, have the only credible line in the movie. It occurs midway through her love scene, when she announces, "I'm completely out of control." - Frank Rich
...Canada. Although, as one former British Attorney General put it, The Act can make it a crime "to report the number of cups of tea consumed per week in a government department," in fact there have been few prosecutions. That is explained partly by intimidation, partly by government restraint and partly by the British and Canadian press's deference to the need for government secrecy...
...every "parental" restraint he defiled, Carlin found he was opening up his mind to the world, understanding other perspectives on life. Drugs had opened his "doors of perception," he says, and "they had an influence I wouldn't deny...
Four of the unions, covering 340,000 of the nation's 496,000 railway workers, signed a "memo of understanding" for a threeyear, 35% increase in wages and cost of living allowances. John Sytsma, president of the Locomotive Engineers, declared that his members had shown "admirable restraint" because they had originally asked for a 45% raise. Said Sytsma: "It's not quite fair to make labor the whipping boy for inflation...