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Under the emergency plan, labor agrees to take a one-third cut in its cost of living allowance, the sliding-scale device by which it has been protected from the country's runaway inflation. Manufacturers will be obliged to make cost of living adjustments on the remaining two-thirds of the allowance but will be unable to raise prices during this period. Thus both labor and management will feel the squeeze. One problem arose when the Histadrut demanded to know whether such government-subsidized goods as milk, bread and public transportation would be included in the price freeze...
...cost of U.S. warplanes climbing faster than an F-15 fighter, one defense expert has suggested that it would take the entire U.S. military budget to buy a single aircraft by the middle of the 21st century. Last week a Government study cited one possible reason for the runaway prices: lavish pay for the executives and employees of some major U.S. defense contractors...
Cambridge residents this fall are joining forces with the city's Department of Community Development in an effort to loss runaway development in and around Harvard Square...
...With Ghostbusters. Murray, Ackroyd, and Ramis make a comedy even without a plot. Here, Collect, Weller, and Garr make a storing film into one of the best. Firstborn does not try to make a social statement by inserting treatises into its characters mouths, rattling off stats about divorce or runaway kids, in the style of some cheap television production. Instead Firstborn is a personal statement offering less pat answers than just a painful and powerful reminder to give pause...
...such, this recovery is doomed to fall through the trap door of 200-plus billion dollar budget deficits extending as far as the economic forecaster's eye can see. The runaway deficit is, in the words of Democratic economic guru Felix Rohatyn, "a prescription for national bankruptcy," the threat of which to our well-being is matched in direness only by the myopia with which Reagan is approaching the problem...