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Coach Robert Carr was jubilant over his charges' performances, and the runaway score enabled him to use all 19 of his players...
...unionize freely. This especially applies to those firms that were lucky enough to have escaped the Amalgamated boycott and have prospered, perhaps unfairly, at Farah's expense. Unionization will prevent large companies from moving from one region of the country to another in order to exploit cheap labor in runaway shops...
Moreover, inflation has punished the poor more than other Americans. Low-income families must spend an average of 71% of their earnings for food and shelter, but these fast-inflating items take only 50% of the earnings of upper-income families. Runaway food prices last year lifted farmers' incomes to record highs, at the expense of other Americans, including the urban poor. A congressional Joint Economic Committee staff study concludes that "in 1973 low-income persons suffered about one-third more inflation than did middle-and upper-income consumers...
When farmers brought in the most abundant harvest in U.S. history last fall, the Nixon Administration confidently predicted that agricultural supplies would finally be ample enough to slow down the year's runaway food prices. They were right-for a while. But suddenly all of the forces that drove up the cost of eating in 1973 so relentlessly are at work again; foreign demand for U.S. agricultural products is running higher than expected, for example, and the cost of livestock feed has risen sharply. Just for good measure, the energy crisis has added at least one new woe: farmers...
...groups to brighten the corners where they live. In November he looked at the Oregon movement to discourage economic and population growth in order to protect the state's agreeable style of life. Last fall he reported on the efforts of householders in declining Chicago neighborhoods to prevent runaway banks from cutting off mortgages and home-improvement loans and thus accelerating the downward spiral of their communities. Secondly, Moyers keeps a door constantly open to cinema verite film makers willing to shoot something more illuminating than rock concerts. In December he and Producer Wayne Ewing did an emotionally potent...