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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost increases and add a bit more, makes inflation accelerate. At first Carter contented himself with pleas for restraint and named Robert Strauss as special counsellor on inflation to do some mild jawboning. Strauss's six-month tenure will be remembered mostly for one rueful wisecrack: "The score is inflation 100, Strauss 0." In October, Carter replaced him with CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn and proclaimed formal guidelines with some teeth. The rules: labor should hold wage and benefit increases to an average 7% annually, and companies should raise prices half a percentage point less than they did, on average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 1979 Outlook: Recession | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...generously praises her friends, is discreet about most of her enemies and as demure as a schoolgirl about herself. One is never sure if her virginity was lost or simply faded slowly like the Cheshire cat. Still, the lady knows how to settle a score. On being romanced and jilted by Frank Sinatra after Bogart's death in 1957: "Actually, Frank did me a great favor-he saved me from the disaster our marriage would have been. The truth is he was probably smarter than I: he knew it couldn't work. But the truth also is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Bringing Up Bogie's Baby | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Harvard is idle for nine days until it hosts western powerhouse and part-time religious institution Notre Dame on December 23 at Walter Brown Arena. SCORE BY PERIODS HARVARD 2 1 1 --- 4 Vermont...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Vermont Freezes Icemen, 7-4 Crimson Record Now at 3-5 | 12/15/1978 | See Source »

...name of Madison Square Garden on the night of November 24, 1978 and the midwife at courtside was a personable young coach by the name of P.J. Carlesimo. On that night the tiny school in Staten Island defeated nationally ranked Alabama in the Joe Lapchick Memorial Tournament by a score...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Wagner Downs Cagers, 82-73 | 12/15/1978 | See Source »

...Harvard Band did not attend last night's game, so celebrity bugler Hannibal Dobbs from F Troop performed the National Anthem. SCORE BY PERIODS New Hampshire 0 1 3 -- 4 HARVARD...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Romp, 8-4 | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

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