Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter is committed to the spending programs that are embraced in the Democratic platform. That's an honest position, but it's a position totally different from mine, and in order to prevent inflation as he spends more and has no tax reduction, he wants stand-by wage and price controls. I think that would be a disaster. The minute you get stand-by wage and price controls, people are going to be fearful, both labor and management, that we might have them imposed, so they say, "We're going to raise prices...
...that Thai democracy had evolved with its Communist neighbors in Indochina seems to have been derailed. Broadcasts from Hanoi and Vientiane have been sharply hostile to Tanin's government. Still, former Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj dismisses the possibility that Thai opposition groups-even aided by the Vietnamese-can wage real guerrilla war. Instead, he predicts, those who have gone underground or into exile "will be back on bended knees to ask forgiveness so they can go back to the baths, massage parlors and nightclubs. The jungle is not for them...
...economic game plan to save the pound-and the British economy. That plan calls for reducing the British inflation rate, currently 14.3% a year, by moderately cutting public spending and holding the nation's militant trade unions to a "social contract" under which they are supposed to limit wage increases to 4½% a year. The government's hope is to hang on through the winter. By spring, according to its script, oil from the North Sea will flow in sufficient quantity so that Britain can begin to cut its bills for imported oil, thus reducing its towering...
...cost $134 million-or more money than Continental has earned in profit since it began flying. Among the demands: free vasectomies, and salaries above $100,000 a year for senior captains of Continental's jumbo jets. To help make up for small raises parceled out during the Nixon wage-price freeze, Continental offered to increase pilots' pay by 10% immediately, then bargain on how much more they would get. The pilots dismissed that idea as an attempt to buy them off and also rejected a Continental offer to submit the dispute to binding arbitration...
...never compromised on his ideals. Much of the campaign literature focuses on his statements in 1968, suggesting he stood for liberal goals way back then, and is more serious about them than Carter. His platform includes calls for a shared work program; nuclear disarmament; limited and conditional wage-price controls, and selective credit controls; and end to overconsumption of energy; protection of civil liberties, detente, in terms of nuclear arms limitation rather than shuttle diplomacy; increased control of corporations...