Word: whether
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Administration experts fear that they may not be sure for another two months whether the economy is heading up or down. But well before then, Carter's voluntary wage and price guidelines will have faced some crucial tests. Foremost is the trucking industry's bargaining now under way with the Teamsters union, which is seeking pay raises as high as 38% over three years, far beyond those permitted under the guidelines. Unions generally cite rising corporate profits (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) as one reason to demand bigger raises. Alfred Kahn, the Administration's top inflation fighter, concedes some...
...decontrol, or he could choose the more modest, but politically safer option of gradually lifting controls on specified types of U.S. oil over two years. Carter is likely to ask Congress to include an excess profits tax that would prevent the oil companies from reaping a sudden bonanza. But whether he will urge that this tax be rebated to low-income families, be set aside for oil exploration or used to reduce his budget deficit apparently was undecided last week...
With skepticism still running high about the Carter warehouse probe, Curran will be watched closely, a fact that he knows full well. Says he: "I have a job to do regardless of the public's attitudes. The people can judge later whether I've done...
...Justice Department personnel, and he has plans to form a small staff of his own. He has authority to pursue all questions about the peanut loans. At one point, the company was $500,000 behind in its payments. Implicit in the investigation is the question of whether any of the loan money was illegally used in Carter's campaign in 1976. The investigation will certainly entail a detailed look at the tangled affairs of Billy Carter, who operated the family business while his brother was running for the White House...
...have created a thriving black market that is feeding an unofficial inflation rate of 200%. Many of these problems would be relieved by fresh oil revenues, and as of last week production was up to 2.5 million bbl. per day, or about half the normal level. The question was whether these revenues, welcome as they were, would be sufficient to get Iran moving again...