Word: stiffening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first real confidence in more than a decade that inflation is being seriously attacked. The President's tough stand on wages, for example, evidenced by his firing last August of 15,000 professional air traffic controllers for their illegal strike action in a wage dispute, has already helped stiffen the resolve of employers in contract talks. Wages and benefits account for some two-thirds of all U.S. business costs, and the emerging pattern of wage restraint in key industries, such as autos, trucking and airlines, strongly suggests that the slowdown in inflation is now beginning to chip away...
...current maximum penalty for falsifying a tax return is a fine of $10,000 and five years in prison. Republican Senators Robert Dole and Charles Grassley, have introduced a bill that would stiffen reporting requirements and add some large new fines. At present, its prospects look...
...press conference confirmed his decision: he will put off all consideration of tax boosts until January. Meanwhile, he will press for a further cut of 12%, or $13 billion, in fiscal 1982 spending on top of the $35 billion reduction already passed. Said the President: "This Government must stiffen its spine and not throw in the towel on our fight to get federal spending under control...
...ISSUES the council will rule upon from its University Hall perch this year will probably be, on the whole, less critical than some of those it has decided in the past. A proposal to stiffen the foreign language requirement is almost certain to appear--yet the only committee to have considered it before the council will have been an all-Faculty one that last met nearly a year-and-a-half ago. Since that time, no one seems to have given thought to the possibility of involving students in an issue of such obvious concern to them...
...Kremlin leaders complained, with justification, that this heavyhanded attempt to link economic rewards with exit visas constituted interference in their internal affairs. This kind of explicit, narrowly defined "linkage" tends always to stiffen Soviet backs. Linkage must be an underlying factor in the calculations on both sides rather than a stark equation by itself, such as the formula that freer emigration would equal freer trade, or that a Soviet pullout from Afghanistan would equal ratification of SALT...