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...Administration's voluntary wage-price guidelines are getting off to a shakier start than friend or foe had anticipated. Kahn, the anti-inflation czar, does not have enough staffers or even telephones to accommodate the torrent of questions from business and labor leaders seeking clarification of the complex program, with its ambivalent language and infamous algebraic equations for figuring out how much prices may be raised...
...kind of shakedown cruise-shakier at times, perhaps, than Jimmy Carter might have wished. But it accomplished the general purposes the President-elect had in mind. For the first time, Carter last week assembled his top aides, Cabinet nominees and other upper-echelon appointees, giving them a chance to get to know each other and to begin wrestling with the problems they will inherit...
...hoopla, the bunting and bravado, but underneath run currents of deep anxiety. Whoever gains the Republican nomination this year inherits a split and dispirited party and faces the heavily favored, consensus-minded Democrat Jimmy Carter. If the G.O.P. candidate loses in November, the already wobbly party will become even shakier. Not just its opponents but Republicans themselves are wondering whether the G.O.P. can survive much longer...
...good-even if Commoner does not spell out how the nation should go about financing such changes. But then he moves to a more demanding and shakier argument. All U.S. industry, he says, is caught in a trap. It keeps looking to new technologies to boost output and has to pay immense amounts of money for new machines. Since the money cannot come from internal profits - which Commoner, at least, claims have dropped sharply - it has to come from banks and other investors who are already pinched for capital. Moreover, the new processes tend to use less human labor, spurring...
...Detroit is gambling that its main selling point for '76−improved fuel economy−will bring enough buyers back to the showrooms to end the industry's two-year sales decline. While admitting to some concern that the nation's economy seems "a little bit shakier" now than it did earlier this summer, Ford Chairman Henry Ford II last week predicted that "we'll have a good year...