Word: catchup
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True, there is currently some fascination, and some suspense, in watching Candidate Howard Baker, the Senate minority leader, calibrate the exact degree of his opposition to the SALT treaty. And it was exhilarating to see John Connally playing catchup, firing that long bomb of his about the Middle East-with results that have persuaded no other candidate of the usefulness of candor. But what happens when candidates no longer define issues as they used to be defined in terms of priorities in spending, or in terms of problems and solutions...
...preoccupying problem of unemployment," French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing last week announced a $1.1 billion infusion of government spending for public works and family allowances, the second stimulative effort this year. Britain's trades unions are pressing Prime Minister James Callaghan for a large "catchup" pay boost and a major expansion program to create jobs. Even wealthy West Germany, which has sorely disappointed the rest of Europe (as well as the Carter Administration) by failing to push very hard on its crucial economic accelerator, may finally be getting ready to apply the gas. Chancellor Helmut...
...rubber, construction, electrical equipment and autos. They are being renegotiated after two years in which the average hourly earnings of workers in U.S. private industry have risen less than the prices of the goods that the workers buy, so that union leaders are under pressure to push for huge "catchup" increases...
Some reasons for the optimism: unemployment is likely to stay above 7% of the work force, deflecting some of the bargaining push away from big wage increases toward new job-security demands. The rate of inflation already is coming down, taking some steam out of the "catchup" drive. Also, many unions will be demanding new, or more generous, provisions tying wage hikes to the cost of living. If price rises continue to slow, the clauses could keep wage increases moderate...
...standards results from the increase of mass education and from open-admissions programs-although to argue against ever widening opportunity of education is to confront one of the most cherished goals of the American ideal. In any case, teachers all along the line must play a frantic kind of catchup. Colleges blame high school teachers for sending them students who cannot read or write properly; high school teachers blame the schools below; and, with reason, nearly everybody blames the families from which the children come...