Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Initially 9to5 works indirectly, publicizing the issues, hoping to trigger an impulse to organize from within. Once a woman has taken the step of contacting 9to5, the staff offers free legal counseling and will help her plan strategy. Usually they look into employment practices throughout her particular industry in Boston, then confront management--and, if necessary, bring legal proceedings against the company. Or they may call for public hearings and pressure government agencies to enforce anti-discrimination laws and affirmative action requirements...
...computing the trigger prices, the Government consulted with Japanese officials, whose nation's mills make the world's least expensive steel that is imported into the U.S. Last month an American team led by Robert Crandall, deputy director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, holed up in Washington with a 20-member Japanese delegation, poring over data supplied by the visitors concerning cost of materials and labor, overhead, depreciation and the like. The conclusion: for 17 steel products that make up 75% of the market the average trigger price would...
...triggers for other steel products will be announced by the time the new plan goes into effect Feb. 15. After that date, customs officials will report to the Treasury any imported steel costing less than the trigger price. The Treasury will automatically begin an investigation. In the past, the Government investigated charges of dumping only when they were brought by U.S. companies, and the process often took two years. Now remedies will come much more swiftly...
...plan was not greeted with hosannas. The Federal Trade Commission, in an unpublished study, charges that the trigger-price system will cost American consumers $1 billion, by raising the price of imported metal, and will require a huge bureaucracy to administer. American steelmakers are not sure that it will even actually curb imports. It will do so only if the trigger price is fairly close to the U.S. price-and at year's end several major American manufacturers announced price increases averaging 5.5%. Not until the second quarter will it become apparent whether trigger prices will actually curb imports...
...Edgar B. Speer of U.S. Steel said that his com pany would eventually have to close down its Youngstown, Ohio, operation, which currently employs 5,000 workers. It is clear that the Youngstown plants, with their ancient machinery, have also become geographically obsolete. Even if the Administration's trigger-price scheme succeeds, older plants like Youngstown's are unlikely to be salvageable...