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...news that business has been reporting is inflation. So we find Government spokesmen telling the people that the real villains in this inflation story are the businessmen who are raising their prices and the labor unions that are raising wages. When any Government tries to eliminate inflation by controlling wages and prices, what it is really doing is asking all of us to suppress the bad news that it has printed too much money. The reason we have inflation is that since 1967 the Government has caused the money supply to grow three times as fast as the goods...
...spokesmen said yesterday the program should add more than 40,000 volumes to major research libraries and preserve more than 20,000 volumes. The program should also make 3 million previously unavailable books available to smaller libraries...
Although some Administration spokesmen insist that the U.S. position is not intended to pick a fight with anyone, the internecine squabble has only served to mystify Europeans more than ever. At the least, the nation's allies rightly wonder what the U.S. has to get tough with in the first place. Moral questions aside, military action would be a tactical nightmare. Nor does the nation have much of an economic weapon against OPEC. Cut off grain exports? Argentina or even India could sell much, if not all, of the grain that OPEC needs. Embargo U.S. military equipment sales? France...
...Customers returned 17.5% of the tires to dealers, an industry record, although company spokesmen originally said the figure was 7.5%. A Firestone document in 1977 showed that in one year the 500 return rate was as high as 27% and that half of this was probably because of the separations...
...Spokesmen for the American Federation of Teachers--the organization directing the lobbying effort against the bill--said yesterday that they are still working to defeat the bill on the floor of the House...