Word: slower
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European and Japanese companies are also feeling the squeeze. In fact, because the economies of Western Europe are smaller, slower growing and more export oriented than that of the U.S., a number of countries could be quite hard hit. West Germany's economy is only half as large as the U.S.'s, but the country's exports to Iran last year reached nearly $3.4 billion, or almost as much as the U.S. figure...
When a soldier walked into the shop, he was greeted amiably by the other customers. He assured a schoolteacher: "I want whatever the people want." And what was that? As one Western expert put it last week, "Iranians want a slower pace, a more traditional society. In a Muslim country, the duty of a good government is simply not to interfere in the lives of its people too much and to allow them to live as good Muslims." Whether Iran will get that kind of government is still far from certain...
...chimney. Worse, chimney drafts suck even more heat out of the house itself. Wood stoves, generally priced at $400 to $600, eliminate the waste by putting the fire in an airtight metal chamber that regulates the oxygen flow by means of an adjustable vent. This produces a hotter, slower-burning blaze than in a fireplace. More important, the stove throws its heat into the room instead of up the chimney...
Women have had a harder, slower climb in universities than in Government. Rivlin points to the reason: "It's harder to discriminate in Government." In 1977 only 3.3% of all full professors of economics were women; in the leading universities, the figure was only 1%. Still, a growing number of female stars are today rising over the campuses. One of them, Marina Whitman, 43, economics professor at the University of Pittsburgh, broke new ground by becoming the first female member of the three-person CEA in the Nixon Administration. A specialist in global economics, Whitman says wryly...
...overwhelm wage increases." Thus union members think that they ought to get the biggest raises possible to protect themselves against an inexorable rise in prices. The Administration has sought to counter that fear by ballyhooing a proposal to Congress to grant income-tax rebates to workers whose wages rise slower than prices do. But Congressmen worry that such "real wage insurance" would be inordinately expensive, and union leaders, planning their strategies, have no assurance that it will be in effect as they go to the bargaining table...