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...until only 28% of the items in the consumer price index and 38% of wage and salary earners were still covered by the Economic Stabilization Act. Last week's decision means that workers in most industries would be able to hold onto any wage increase that they can wring out of an employer without being overruled by the Cost of Living Council. Controls will continue on two industries: petroleum, where prices have been soaring because of the energy crisis; and health care, where costs will encounter considerable upward pressure if Congress passes the Administration's proposed national healthcare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Getting Out of Controls | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

Evidence in tow, an incredulous Nicky confronts Lesley in the book's climax, pitting his doubts against her certitude, his emotions against her coolness, attempting to wring from her a confession of responsibility. But Lesley evades everything, seeing it only as some game, and not even a macabre one at that. The confrontation, as it must be, is a stand-off: Nicky refuses to succumb to his sister's inhumane logic but neither does he press ahead for any definitive verdict against...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: Lesley Evades Everything | 10/5/1973 | See Source »

...state in which the play has come to us, Macbeth surmounts all obstacles and has the power to grip you like no other. I don't mean just its ability to engage the mind; the play has an almost corporeal existence, and can seize you by the throat and wring...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Macbeth' Intrigues the Eye, Assaults the Ear | 7/13/1973 | See Source »

James F. Cassidy, head of the union, said yesterday that negotiate were in full wring and that the parties were "and law for apart." The length of the new contract in the remaining point of contention, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Negotiations Start With City Workers | 1/11/1973 | See Source »

...success of the Springfield offspring Poco, Loggins and Messina, the time is still somehow ripe for another Buffalo Springfield. And Eagles seem to fit They're torn from the Los Angeles tradition. The four members have done time with the Bvrds Dillard Clark as well as LA's second wring folk rock hand the ones that never made it past saloons. Scraped from these ruins each member knowing another from less successful days. Eagles have one man in common. David Gellen head of Asylum Records Geffen sent the band to play four sets a might for four weeks...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: Take it Easy, But Take it From Somewhere | 10/5/1972 | See Source »

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