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Simultaneously, the Price Commission continued to toughen its regulation of the companies with annual sales of $50 million or more that must report price and profit data. The commission ordered more rollbacks involving major companies, though relatively minor products. Textron Inc., for example, must rescind a price increase on snowmobiles, and Armco Steel will have to cancel hikes on such merchandise as soap and hammers sold in its oilfield supply stores, which account for less than 1% of Armco's sales. Both companies were also ordered to refund money to customers who were charged the higher prices. Associated Wholesale...
...grinding extra hours and display the single-minded determination necessary to make it to the top in much of U.S. business. "Women tend to see a job as a 9 to 5 thing," admits Mrs. Jane Gould, Barnard College's placement director. "We've got to toughen them up if they want to get ahead...
...seem a harmless temptation for "relevance"-oriented academics to become "insiders" or government policy-makers as well; when they do so, however, they invariably "toughen" their language and couch their ideas and recommendations in more "hard-headed" terms than they might otherwise use. As anyone who has observed U.S. policymaking knows, there is an atmosphere of bureaucratic machismo which infects decision-making and obliges everyone involved, full-time officials as well as academic consultants, to talk much more brutishly than they would in private. Not only does the government lie as a corporate unit, but each official likewise conceals...
Businessmen have been turning to the Administration for helpor at least guidancein holding back inflation, but so far they have received little of either. Nixon's economic game plan foresaw a profit squeeze, which was supposed to toughen management resistance to union demands. According to the plan, this would lead to some big strikes, but ultimately to a decline in pressure for extravagant wage increases. The plan has not worked out the way the Administration had hoped. The strikes have indeed hit, but in many major settlements, management has been forced to capitulate to inflationary...
...Harvard must regroup, toughen itself mentally, for revenge at the Heptagonals a month from today in the same place. Mike Koerner and Marshall Jones must recover from injuries...