Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also has proposed a speedup in the licensing of nuclear power plants that dismays some environmentalists. More important, he pleased business initially by asking for an increase in the minimum wage so small that AFL-CIO President George Meany called it "shameful." Now, he is prepared to sign a bill increasing the minimum wage by 45%, to $3.35 an hour in 1981-a boost that businessmen consider highly inflationary...
What can Carter do to get the message across? All is not lost, by any means. For all their disenchantment, most executives do not yet regard Carter as an enemy or believe that he sees them as one. Many indeed seem almost pathetically eager for some sign of reassurance from the President. Executive after executive begs for a clear program to set the rules under which business should operate, even if business does not agree with them...
...Washington's tax, spending and energy policies; the President realizes and has often said that only business can make the investments, create the jobs and pay the wages necessary to produce prosperity. It is only natural that both should resent that mutual dependence-but it is a hopeful sign that both recognize...
...similar things like targets-things the mind already knows. That gave me room to work on other levels." The most complex of these levels-and Johns' work on it constitutes a great part of his historical importance-was exploring differences between knowing and seeing. A target is a sign. Anyone who has shot on a range knows that looking at a target is an extreme case of hierarchical perception -score 10 for the bull's-eye, 9 for the inner, and so on. Once a target is seen aesthetically, as a unified design, its use is lost...
...looked out of his 38th -floor office in the ABC building to see Daly in the CBS building across 53rd Street hopping up and down to catch his attention. "He jumped up on a window ledge'" says Silverman, a longtime friend "waved and made a V for victory sign with his fingers...