Word: stick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watching to see just how much leverage Carter has with Begin, especially in the face of all the activity by the Israel lobby against the President's plane-sale proposal. Carter insists that he is not "discouraged" about the peace process-yet. Says he: "We are going to stick with it even if it takes a lot of time and much abuse...
...centers on two plans known by the acronym TIP, for tax-based incomes policy. Both call for a system of federally set guideposts,* and would use federal taxes as a means of discouraging large wage settlements. The main difference between the two plans is that one would employ a stick, the other a carrot...
...stick proposal was conceived by Federal Reserve Board Governor Henry C. Wallich and University of Pennsylvania Economist Sidney Weintraub. In essence, they recommend that any employer granting wage increases of 1 % or more above certain federal guidelines be forced to pay the same amount in penalty taxes. The guidelines would be reckoned by taking the annual rate of productivity increase in the employer's industry and then adding one-half of the nation's prevailing inflation rate. By that formula, the guideline for overall industrial wages would be about 5% (that is, the rate of productivity increase added...
...interweaving of power, love and betrayal. Lipsky's philosophizing at the play's end about Israel's decline from Moses's cooperative tribal government to the power politics infecting David and Saul falls flat, perhaps owing to the narrator's underlining of the self-evident. Better to stick to what he does best--implying the moral of the play through well-written character confrontations--and leave Story Theater for fairy tales...
Down 3-1, it was a case of renewed vigor for only the next two minutes as Terrier Tony Meagher took the puck off Kevin O'Donoghue's stick and raced in only to be foiled by Hynes...