Word: rollback
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...endless flood of new auto regulations may have ended last week, when the Reagan Administration announced the rollback of a series of rules governing cars. The White House proclaimed that the Government will eliminate a total of 34 air-quality and safety regulations that it does not consider cost-efficient. It estimated that these changes will save automakers $1.3 billion and consumers $8 billion over the next five years. Explained Vice President George Bush: "Our thesis on regulation is that it's gone...
...rollback of a fall 1980 rent increase which union members said Harvard Real Estate justified on grounds of increased property taxes...
...Gdansk workers tacked a number of political demands onto their calls for a $67-a-month pay increase and a rollback of meat prices. Among them: the establishment of more representative trade unions and the building of a monument to the 49 Gdansk workers killed during the 1970 riots. Seeking to avoid another bloody confrontation, officials at first showed a surprising willingness to negotiate, even at the risk of conferring a de facto legitimacy on the right to strike. Hours after the Gdansk action began, the state-controlled press reported that the government had offered a $40-a-month...
...freeze on prices and wages was necessary yesterday, not tomorrow. Along with a wage and price freeze should be a mandatory 20% rollback of prices and a 15% rollback of wages to those existing...
...Cuban missile crisis, or perhaps over Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet in SALT II, the Carter Administration would have blunted that threat somewhat by limiting the proliferation of warheads. It would be better, of course, if the treaty stopped the Soviet buildup rather than merely slowing it down. A rollback would be better still -and might be a major goal of SALT III if there ever is such a thing. But just as politics is the art of the possible, SALT is the art of the negotiable, and SALT n would mitigate the Soviet ICBM threat...