Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vice President Walter Mondale. "I don't know of any member of the Cabinet who tries harder to avoid poisonous disputes over minor matters. He doesn't indulge in backbiting, and he won't tolerate adults with graduate degrees behaving like children fighting over a toy." Yet there is steel in Vance's chronically ailing back. (A ruptured disc has bothered him ever since 1966, forcing an operation in 1967 and requiring him to wear a body cast for a time. His back has grown less troublesome, although he eases it at times by relaxing in a rocking chair...
...average of the past two years. Carter specifically called on high executives to freeze their own salaries and bonuses as a kind of anti-inflationary example to the troops. He added that the Council on Wage and Price Stability will begin a series of meetings with executives in the steel, paper, aluminum, railroad and other industries to formulate goals for wage-price boosts...
Wicklund, who claims he never gets sick and never gets a cold, said he still runs ten miles a day, despite a recent operation in which doctors replaced a section of an arthritic femur bone with a ten-inch stainless steel shaft...
...industry to hold down wage-price boosts, at least implying more frequent and vigorous Administration jawboning of offenders. The Administration last week did score a preliminary jawboning victory. After President Carter himself and some other officials had denounced as inflationary an average $10.50-a-ton price increase by U.S. Steel, the company announced that it would peel back to be "competitive" with other steelmakers that raised prices only...
...criticized Congress-and indirectly even the White House-for appearing to cave in to the farmers' demands. Bosworth has also become an effective jaw-boner. Two weeks ago. he masterminded the Administration's successful effort to prevent the nation's steelmakers from following U.S. Steel in its attempt to raise prices far beyond what would have been justified by the settlement won by striking coal miners. His tactic-phoning U.S. Steel's competitors and persuading them to announce smaller increases-forced U.S. Steel to roll back its own hike. Bosworth's 20 COWPS officials have...