Word: sures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Administration experts fear that they may not be sure for another two months whether the economy is heading up or down. But well before then, Carter's voluntary wage and price guidelines will have faced some crucial tests. Foremost is the trucking industry's bargaining now under way with the Teamsters union, which is seeking pay raises as high as 38% over three years, far beyond those permitted under the guidelines. Unions generally cite rising corporate profits (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) as one reason to demand bigger raises. Alfred Kahn, the Administration's top inflation fighter, concedes some...
...sure of the exact figure because of the legendary secretiveness of the diamond trade. But business is obviously booming. In the past five years, prices have quintupled, and the working population of the street has more than doubled, reaching about...
Back in Grenada meanwhile, members of the new government feared that Sir Eric would try to stage a countercoup. Sure enough, while in New York City last week, Sir Eric vainly appealed to the U.S., Canada and Britain to return him to power. According to Bishop, Sir Eric then began seeking men and arms for a mercenary army that would retake the island...
...means of estimating the real cost of a long-term project, no way of knowing whether profits will cover that cost. So they delay or abandon investment projects that seem marginal or chancy. Instead, they put the company money into a smaller number of investments that seem to be sure winners-or into buying out existing companies rather than opening new branches...
...breed of psychiatric researchers are also beginning to suspect the same thing about depression, the most common of mental complaints. Simple depression or temporary gloom, to be sure, may be a normal response to some unhappy experience in everyday life. But the enduring pathological kind of depression may well be entirely neurochemical. Says Wyeth Labs Psychopharmacologist Larry Stein: "The normal brain is damned adaptive. It may undergo a short-term depression when things are going bad, but it bounces back when things go well again." The serious depressive, on the other hand, he says, may be "suffering from the biology...