Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Udall is undeniably liberal on the basic economic issues. He enthusiastically endorses Government-guaranteed full employment and is willing to accept inflation as a side effect of such a policy. He thinks jawboning industries and a wage-price board that "yells like hell when steel companies raise prices" would help keep inflation under control. He wants to federalize the welfare system and enact national health insurance. He believes in keeping the energy growth rate down to 2% a year to conserve resources, a proposal he made in June 1975. He wants to save the country's land from...
...Hewlett seemed to January to have the the winning hand -until last January. Then Chicago newspapers reported that he had been collecting $15,000 a year as "vice president" of Sun Steel Co., a post that, in some written statements, he implied that he no longer held. When he was accused of lobbying for legislation helpful to the steel-scrap industry, he denied the charge, but he resigned his post. On top of that, he divulged that in 1974 he declared as personal income-and paid taxes on-$100,000 in political contributions. He maintained that the money was used...
...companies will probably schedule $13 billion worth of new stock issues for sale in 1976-already well ahead of the $9.2 billion actually marketed in all of last year. Stock splits are also on the rise; they have been announced by such companies as Bendix, Crane, Amsted, and U.S. Steel. Most important, corporate directors are encouraging investors by announcing the largest number of dividend increases in 20 years...
...nights the network swamps the ratings-are not much different from the other networks' fare. ABC's top shows are only too familiar comedies such as Happy Days and its offspring Laverne and Shirley, sci-fi fantasies like The Six Million Dollar Man, from whose stainless-steel rib was cloned the Bionic Woman, and a lineup of crime that includes Starsky and Hutch and S. W.A. T. ABC has placed at least four shows in the top ten since the start of the second season...
...stand there as dream images to be lit up every hour on the hour for a group that has waited in line for two hours to be able to sit inside for an electronically induced inspiration. Jimmy Carter belongs on that row of battery-powered presidents. George Wallace, half steel and wires already but pumping up his human hatred and vengeance four times daily, doesn...