Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resurrected Cost of Living Council or some other body should also monitor the Government's own price behavior. As economists tirelessly point out, Government departments and regulatory agencies, in an effort to please narrow constituencies, often adopt policies that spur rather than slow inflation. For example, the Agriculture Department is now buying up $100 million worth of "excess" beef and pork in a deliberate effort to keep prices paid to farmers and feed-lot operators from dropping. Federal regulatory agencies often set railroad, truck and barge freight rates high enough to protect the most inefficient carriers from competitive damage...
...October war, he has nonetheless maintained his ties to the U.S. Last week Kissinger and Faisal's half brother, Prince Fahd, signed an agreement in Washington that had the aim of assuring the U.S. a steady flow of oil while Saudi Arabia gets American technical assistance to spur on its economy. During his talks with the King, Nixon is expected to discuss further cooperation between the two countries, as well as the attempts to bring stability to the Middle East...
...land for large companies for a decade, but a law that was little noted nor long remembered. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court decided its first sex-discrimination wage case, and five of the "Nine Old Men" handed down a ruling that should be a sharp spur for industries to up women's wages...
...fall. It's conceivable, but not likely, that the Med School workers will join the workers in Cambridge voluntarily to form a University-wide union or the University and the NLRB might force them into it. If the Med Schools workers unionize successfully, the feat would undoubtedly spur on the organizing move in Cambridge...
Other nations rejected India's explanation, noting that no distinction could be drawn between tests for peaceful purposes and those for arms development. Many diplomats feared that the test would help spur other nations with technical know-how into accelerating their efforts to join the nuclear club. As if to confirm that fear, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan warned that if India builds the bomb, "we will eat leaves and grass, even go hungry, but we will have to get one of our own. We have no alternative." At least eight other nations have the capability...