Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Europe, through its proposed entry into the Common Market, could only benefit what he called the "natural relationship" between the U.S. and Britain, as well as "the Atlantic Alliance and the whole Free World." He indicated concern with Congress's inclination toward protectionist trade policies that could cut by 20% Britain's annual $2.2 billion in exports to the U.S. The two heads of government also issued a joint statement calling for the resumption of the Jarring Arab-Israeli talks. And they conferred about this week's U.S. decision to establish a small air-naval-and-communications...
...campaign continues. By last week, advertising in Weekender had dropped 40%, from 1,000 square-column inches per issue to only 600. Editor Suzanne Snyder, 26, and Publisher John McCann were forced to raise the price five cents a copy. She and the paper's two staffers cut their salaries from $80 to $27 a week. "When you've been economically squeezed to a point where you don't have enough to eat," she says, "you begin to think enough is enough. But by that time you're ready to plan the next issue...
Business, too, has a responsibility to relieve some of the stress on the contemporary family, according to Psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner. In a report to last week's White House Conference on Children, he urged business to create flexible work schedules, cut back on travel, on transfers and on social obligations that keep parents away from their children. Bronfenbrenner also feels that large corporations should concern themselves with "where and how their families live," and with more part-time positions, better maternity leave, day-care centers and family recreation plans...
Luce is regarded as one of the most socially responsible leaders in the utility business. He is also a realist. Crippled by equipment breakdowns. Con Ed has been forced to cut voltage in controlled "brownouts" for the past two summers. Meantime, New Yorkers demand ever more power. Con Ed is all but helpless to supply it, because conservationists have won assorted court orders delaying the company's proposed new plants. They argue that power generation also generates pollution-and now Luce has publicly agreed with them...
...reshape the country, they can at last point to some solid accomplishments. Exports are at record levels, and the economy is booming. Inflation still plagues Brazil, but it has been reduced from the 87% of Goulart's days to 22% this year. Employees are being cut in on their companies' revenues under a new "participation fund" plan, and work has begun on the epic 3,000-mile Transamazon Highway...