Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford was at home in the House of Representatives. He easily took to the traditions and the associations, the hearty camaraderie with its overtones of the locker room, the alliances formed and held to wage the good fight against the Democrats. "I am a child of the House," Ford would later say, and he was raised right, a superb team player who seems to have angered...
...five panelists fears that Carter would turn out to be a big spender. Said Judith DeWilde, a moderate Republican from Doylestown, Pa.: "He's promising all things to all people. Somebody has to say who is going to pay for the guaranteed wage program and the national health bill." A third of the panel shared the feeling that Carter is too much of an unknown, and that makes it risky to vote for him. Said Marie Silence: "I'm afraid of Carter and the radical changes he might make. Nobody really knows what he will do." Carter...
...Liberals got into trouble because of Trudeau's reputation for arrogance, and also because voters are confused by a series of policy flip-flops and fudges stretching back over a year. After campaigning hard against wage and price controls as a cure for Canada's double-digit inflation, Trudeau abruptly introduced them last October, alienating labor. Shortly afterward, the Prime Minister unsettled the business community by announcing that the "free-market system" in Canada was dead. What he meant was that new solutions, possibly government-imposed, would have to be found for the persistent problem of stagflation. Many...
...textile mill is almost the only source of employment, are so happy to have industrial jobs that they do not care about the fact that those jobs pay less than similar ones in the North. (Southern nonunion textile pay averages little more than the $2.30-an-hour federal minimum wage...
What issues? Last week he described some to TIME Correspondent David Wood: creating jobs for the unemployed by shortening the work week or work year; controlling inflation by "conditional wage-price controls and by ending wasteful, inflationary spending in the automobile industry and in military and space programs"; regulating the weight and speed of cars to reduce fuel consumption. He insists that he has not stirred much attention because national press coverage has been niggardly. Says he: "We deserve at least as much attention as Walter Cronkite gave to the boy he thought for two days had been raised...