Word: standards
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Many of Britain's 35 million voters agree that the May 3 general election could be the country's most significant since World War II. If nothing else, the electorate will be presented with a clear choice, not an echo. Labor's standard-bearer is avuncular James Callaghan, 67, a soothingly familiar leader of his party with a simple message: jobs and trust. His Tory opponent is Margaret Thatcher, 53, determined to become not only Britain's first woman Prime Minister but a rigorously conservative one as well. Her message to the voters was equally plain...
...such as refineries and pipelines to come on-stream without years of delays, regulatory hearings and appeals, Carter signed an Executive order setting strict deadlines for processing applications. He also said that the Administration would take action to slice through the bureaucratic barriers that have bogged down plans by Standard Oil of Ohio for a pipeline to carry Alaskan oil from California to Texas. The pipeline would enable some 350,000 bbl. per day of Alaskan oil to reach Eastern markets, thereby displacing the need for an equal amount of imports...
...February. Leading the price index was food, which jumped 1.2%, with particularly severe rises in beef and veal. So far this year, beef prices have increased at an annual rate of more than 100% and are expected to remain oppressively high for the rest of the year. The standard Administration forecast calls for inflation to moderate, but not before several months more of big price rises...
...Teamsters settlement is all but certain to break the wage standard despite vigorous efforts by the Administration to force restraint. Last week bargaining resumed briefly only to be broken off again. When the talks first collapsed, April 1, the drivers were demanding an increase of 32% over three years. Though that would be well above the compounded guideline level of 22.5%, the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS) seemed ready to exclude some benefit gains and pronounce an even 30% settlement to be within the standards...
Dales' debacle typified the costliness of a missed shot on MacDonald's course, with its majestic swales and elevated greens ringed by bunkers. MacDonald, a Chicagoan who was introduced to golf when his father sent him to study at St. Andrews University in Scotland in 1872, set the standard for American golf course architecture...