Word: rising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turbulent annals of free enterprise, the relatively swift rise of Gulf & Western must be regarded as a noteworthy success story, and the company is now seeking to share the most recent installment of that story with TIME'S audience. The unusual advertising message appears in TIME alone. As G & W Executive Vice President Martin S. Davis puts it, "We consider TIME readers very much a part of our success." We too consider the quality of our readers, along with the thoroughness of our news coverage, to be responsible for the high reputation TIME enjoys in the advertising and financial...
...recession would complicate Carter's economic policy by causing a rise in unemployment from the present 5.9 per cent level...
...they were rigorously applied, the American economy would still be dominated by oligopolies. And as the chairman of Carter's own Council of Economic Advisers, Charles Schultze, noted in his 1959 study Recent Inflation in the United States, when the structure of the market is such that prices rise in response to greater demand, but do not fall when demand declines, the result will be an increase in average costs, hence a rising inflation rate. As consolidation of the market has quickened in the last several years (there were twice as many mergers and acquisitions...
...IDEA BEHIND Carter's wage and price guidelines is good, though the price increases allowed to industry are not exactly miniscule (they are asked to hold their price hikes to a half percentage point below the average rise in 1976-77). If corporations are setting their prices at inflationary levels, the government should intervene. But the President has acknowledged that he has no tangible means of enforcing them except through the pressure of public opinion. He can't encourage a consumer boycott of violators or withhold federal contracts from them because it would be over-stepping his presidential authority...
...increase, from 456 to 528 students, conforms with a fairly steady rise over the last five years, Rhoda Neidorf, medical records administrator for UHS, said yesterday. Five years ago, during the 1973-74 midyear exam period, only 149 students "sicked...