Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government has unwisely, though presumably with good intentions, assumed control over economic matters best left to work themselves out. Good sense falls victim to expediency, charlatanry and paternalism-which is nothing new, but which should temper enthusiasm for this latest nostrum as time passes...
...three weeks ago we had George Shultz and James Hodgson coming, and Mr. Shultz even thought the President might stop by. Well, we lost the President and Mr. Shultz, and Mr. Hodgson is probably down in the cellar somewhere." Meany played the course with three lower-ranking officials. His temper grew still shorter when Hodgson treated Teamster Boss Frank Fitzsimmons and his aides to a special briefing on the freeze at the Labor Department, apparently because their reaction to the Nixon program had seemed favorable. In fact, although the Teamsters hailed it as a "bold measure," they went...
...split is evident in his book, The Beat Generation-part sketchy sociology, part elementary lit. crit., part personal reportage and part casual Ph.D. thesis. "The almost schizophrenic change that has been worked in the temper of our times," Cook proclaims, "was predicted a decade before, implicit in every poem, novel and prose piece produced by the Beat Generation...
...those countries. Yet the record is by no means barren, especially over the short run. Last year Canada's Price and Incomes Commission had to abandon its short-lived wage and price guidelines because unions would not go along. Still, the commission had considerable success in persuading companies to temper the rate of price increases and was partly responsible for lowering Canada's 1970 inflation rate to 2.3% from 4.5% the year before. Britain has also had its victories. The National Board of Prices and Incomes succeeded several years ago in persuading unions to cooperate with employers in raising productivity...
...major unions have caught up with inflation and are eager to preserve the purchasing power of their recently won gains. At very least, a presidential guideline for wages and prices would give company chiefs a bargaining point in labor negotiations, and would give labor leaders a talking point to temper the demands of their militant rank and file...