Word: upward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move that it probably should have taken months ago?only served to spur the panic flight of capital, which last week was said to be running at the rate of $50 million a day. Meanwhile, inflation, already one of the major sources of discontent, is expected to spiral upward another 10% to 20% in the next six months as a result of wage increases and mounting production costs...
...that the real benefits of Babson will become evident once all four of the departments' lieutenants have completed the course. "We'll have a better understanding of the goals of the department," he says, adding this should increase communication between the different branches of the department, and facilitate the upward input into the decision-making process. Chafin would agree. "This office has been very open to suggestions and ideas from the entire complement of personnel and has instituted programmatic changes based upon some input," Chafin says, citing the initiation of monthly plenary staff meetings, new police cruisers with more effective...
Garth and Deardourff, who both have staffs of more than a dozen and earn upward of $200,000 a year, are not the only stars of the image game. In Florida, for example, Media Expert Robert Squier brought Robert Graham out of obscurity to win the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. His commercials showed Graham, a millionaire landowner and Harvard Law School graduate, getting his hands dirty alongside the working men at 100 different jobs around the state. In Alabama, Fob James, a millionaire sporting-goods magnate, used Memphis Media Consultant Deloss Walker plus $1 million to convince voters through television that...
...glaring sun. Worse, each craft appeared to have entered a blind spot in the other's field of vision. The 727 crew, with the plane's nose up, had limited vision down toward the Cessna; in the Cessna, the high wing above the cockpit obstructed the view upward and to the rear...
...dismal accoutrements go on and on: America's striking lack of an electoral labor party, and in its place, "business unionism," concerned only with wages hours, benefits; America's Horatio Alger myths of upward mobility, still pervasive despite the historical evidence that demonstrates much more rigidity than pluralists or consensus historians will admit. But spare us the hot tubs and razor blades. Leftists take showers...