Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were scheduled to testify in Washington before a federal grand jury, as well as to have their sentences reviewed by Federal Judge John J. Sirica. In meting out their provisional terms last March, Sirica said that if they told investigators all they knew about the breakin, he would "weigh that" in deciding whether to reduce their sentences. They say that they have cooperated. Yet as the Watergate investigation has grown, so has their "provisional" stay at the medium-security federal prison at Danbury, Conn. If Sirica believes that the four have still more to tell, he theoretically could delay...
...Gulf Oil stock to protest the company's payments for African drilling rights to Portugal, then as now bloodily suppressing several African revolutions, the Administration quietly moved to Holyoke Center, and after a week the students left peacefully. The next Fall, Bok set up his new system--to weigh issues more carefully than he could, by his own account, and to shift the responsibility from his shoulders, according to some of his critics...
...council has until Sept. 13 to make up its mind; the increases will go into effect automatically then unless it stops or modifies them. In reaching decision, it must weigh not only cost data but the likely effects of its ruling on business psychology. Right now that psychology is dominated by anticipation of more inflation. The National Association of Purchasing Management reported last week that 69% of its members paid higher prices for materials that they bought for their companies in August-and fully 90% expect prices to go higher still in the fall...
...demand. The huge size of the American crop is allaying fears of foreign buyers, who are now likely to scale down immediate orders in the belief that supplies probably will be available later. Other nations are increasing their harvests this year. Canada's wheat crop, for instance, should weigh in at close to a record. Soviet grain output is falling short of targets, but nowhere near as disastrously...
...rising faster than prices. Second, there have been corrections in wage disparities that a few years ago caused some unions to grumble that other unions-and even nonunion men-were outdistancing them in pay gains. Washington officials fear, however, that food-price inflation from now on will weigh more heavily in unionists' minds. Last week's news did nothing to dispel that fear. The Government reported that the consumer food-price index for July jumped .8%, even though prices supposedly were frozen, and Treasury Secretary George Shultz warned that the August increase in the Wholesale Price Index will...