Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resultant space is unquestionably visually dramatic, with the elegant white tubular trusses drawing one's visual attention in one sweep from the first floor lounge area to the fifth floor studios. It also was expensive. Problems in fabrications of the elements of the freespanning roof helped spiral the cost of the building from an estimated $6,000.000 to close to $10,000.000. Edward R. Baldwin, a member of the design team, claims open studio space cannot be converted. If we had built columns the department would have partitions in the studio by the dedication ceremoney...
...will be serious." Such bleak forecasts, of course, are nothing new in Saigon. Yet even high government officials, who owe a large share of their remaining credibility to the hope of eventual prosperity in South Viet Nam, seem to realize that they cannot allow the downward economic spiral to continue for long...
Cost-Push. Kosters joined with the firm conviction that controls should be aimed at "cost-push" inflation-the type that results when wages and prices drive each other up in a rising spiral. He insisted that controls disturb the free market as little as possible. Kosters' first stand was to argue-successfully-for exempting whole categories of prices, including many rents and most secondhand items. "Take used cars," he says. "They are not part of the production process...
...really understand electronic technology, bio feedback, new forms of consciousness where you don't have to keep up by reading 36,000 books a year are the mystics. Seemingly you move away from culture and technology and become a world-denying mystic. But in reality-in a spiral-you are coming back into the heart of the post-technological culture...
...combat inflation, which may spiral to 50% by the end of this year, he plans to seek legislation raising wages by 25%, in the hope that this will forestall labor demands for even bigger hikes. Allende has also ordered the formation of "supply and price committees" in local neighborhoods, plus union "welfare committees," farm cooperatives and retail-merchants' cooperatives. All these organizations are designed to help keep prices below inflationary levels. "If workers have to take in one notch of the belt" to make the new programs work, said Allende, "the rich will have to take in four...