Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publicly bestowed its blessing on the increase as a relatively moderate one. More important, TIME has learned that the Carter Administration got U.S. Steel to shave down the increase as a result of private talks that constituted a model of how the Administration's policy of "prenotification" of wage and price boosts is supposed to work...
Prenotification is a key part of Carter's anti-inflation strategy. The President does not want to let wage and price boosts follow their own course; yet he has ruled out controls, and is reluctant to proclaim hard-and-fast guidelines businessmen and labor leaders would be expected to follow. That leaves jawboning against individual pay and price hikes, but Carter would like to avoid noisy public confrontations. So his advisers have been passing the word that corporate and union chiefs planning increases that could significantly affect the economy should talk them over with Administration officials privately in advance...
...Rosenthal continues to espouse her "know-nothing" philosophy on science by professing astonishment that such small, seemingly insignificant things as "genes" can possibly influence everyday affairs--we wonder if she believes in atoms? "Did the U.S. wage war in Indochina in order to spread American genes?" she queries in blithe ignorance. It is obvious to anyone with a modicum of reasoning powers that Professor Wilson had nothing of the sort in mind when he wrote his book, but was simply suggesting that biological factors as well as environmental effects influence man's well-known penchant for aggression. Such a suggestion...
Although no major new agreement was reached during the two-and-a-half hour meeting, the two sides discussed the non-economic issues which had lowered the department's morale and stalled the wage bargaining, Lawrence Lettiri, president of the Police Association, said yesterday...
Wilson asserts that in warfare "the spread of genes has always been of paramount importance." Did the U.S. wage war in Indochina in order to spread American genes? Did millions of Americans support the war at first because of "genes for conformity" or because it took time for the anti-war movement to expose the government's lies...