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MODESTLY AGAINST INFLATION. A day after announcing his abandonment of the $50 folly, Carter called his second press conference of the week, to disclose his anti-inflation program. As previously reported (TIME, April 18), it will rely chiefly on voluntary restraint by labor and management to keep prices down. At Carter's invitation, AFL-CIO President George Meany and General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones will help coordinate the private sector's antiinflation efforts. For its part, the Government will try to balance the budget by 1981, hold down unnecessary spending, moderate fluctuations in food supplies and other basic commodities...
...indication, he will be an open-minded but tough negotiator when he and Cyrus Vance travel to Moscow later this year. Carter's appointment and the Senate's confirmation of Warnke are the first steps in what could be a successful effort to exercise a long-awaited restraint on the production of nuclear weapons...
Bishop's power still rests in a cool lucidity, in a restraint that prevents word, phrase and sentence from doing more (or less) than is necessary. In some instances, only the typography indicates that she is writing poetry and not prose...
...majority of Britain's 26 million workers appear dead set against an extension of wage restraint. Their unrest is illustrated by a wildcat strike of 3,000 toolmakers that has brought most auto production to a standstill at the plants of British Leyland, makers of Morris, Austin, Triumph, Rover, and Jaguar cars, and idled 33,000 workers. The toolmakers are striking over the erosion of their "differential"-the margin by which the wages of skilled workers exceed those of the less skilled. Since the social contract held all increases to a flat monetary standard and ruled out raises...
...called D (for defense) notices, which are issued by the government as advance warnings that stories about certain subjects would be harmful to national defense. Though the notices are not legally binding, editors almost always take them seriously, and they amount to a kind of prior restraint that in the U.S. would probably be ruled unconstitutional...