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...guideline, which calls for companies to hold price boosts half a percentage point below the average for 1976-77. But their compliance is not likely to last if unions push wages and benefits up beyond the 7% a year average permitted by the guidelines. Says one Administration official: "Ninety percent of the program will depend on holding down wage increases." Gentry adds: "Companies can agree to abide by the program now and always raise their prices later if things go bad. But a union that takes a three-year contract now under the guidelines would be locked...
...Assuming Bush substantially cuts the guaranteed benefits paid by the government each year to retirees (he has so far avoided actually saying he would do this), he can reduce the long-term cost of the program. And if the stock market continues its historical rate of return of 7 percent a year (or even if it gains a more modest 4 percent a year), such cuts would be painless because most beneficiaries would retire with more money than they would otherwise receive under the current system. Giving workers private accounts should also help boost the currently dismal national savings rate...
...stock returns). This could force some people to delay their retirement until stock prices improve. And regardless of how the market performs, the price of establishing and operating more than 150 million private investment accounts could be huge: one study shows administrative costs could eat up more than 20 percent of invested money...
...want to negate the progress occurring in South Africa? Robert Lenzner of The Boston Globe (Dec. 2, 1978, page 14) reports that a study done by the Arthur D. Little consulting company of Cambridge shows that 75 percent of the 81 corporations who signed equal employment pledges this year have ended discrimination. Mr. Lenzner added that medical and insurance benefits for blacks have improved, to the point of equality in most cases. The Christian Science Monitor (Dec. 4, 1978, page 32) said in an editorial that South Africa's new minister for black affairs, Pieter Koornhof, has made "no less...
...Oval "but is an active ingredient in several other products (Conceptrol, Delfen, Koromex, Ortho-Creme, etc.)." The FDA thus concludes that The Encare Oval should be considered "no more or less effective than the other vaginal contraceptive drugs available." The actual use/failure rate for these products is 20-30 percent, and according to Our Bodies, Ourselves are, thus, best used in conjunction with a condom...