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...Prize will be able to find a job in the city. Their influence was felt last spring when they won concessions from city industrialists, who agreed to set aside many jobs in a new development for Cambridge residents with high school educations. But some fear that the restrictions may halt the growth before it begins; that growth is essential to the city's tax base...
...what it considers a mortal danger. Israel's Transportation Minister Haim Landau went so far as to accuse France of pursuing policies "similar to those of the Vichy regime" during World War II. Deputy Defense Minister Mordechai Zippori warned that if diplomatic efforts failed to halt the nuclear program, Israel would consider "alternative steps," presumably meaning a pre-emptive military strike...
AFTER TWO WEEKS of allowing the so-called Billygate affair to flounder about in public out of control (much in the fashion of his administration), President Carter has finally taken steps to halt the onslaught of conflicting information and contradictory statements, not to mention cretinous comments from his brother, that have disheartened many already disenchanted Democrats and rallied rambunctious Republicans...
...portion of the nation's meat supply, mostly the better cuts, would be sold in special stores at prices that are often double those in regular butchershops. When Polish workers get angry, the regime has learned to take them seriously. Ten years ago, the government used force to halt strikes in the Baltic ports against high food prices. The ensuing bloodshed-hundreds of workers were killed-led to the downfall of Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka. Gierek, who replaced him, prudently called off another attempt to raise meat prices four years ago. This time Gierek has chosen to defuse...
Etzioni's miracle drug has some painful side effects. He is calling for a decade of restraint in personal consumption and the redirection of national resources to halt productivity declines and reduce inflation. The ten-year cost: a stunning $6 trillion, or more than twice the current annual production of all goods and services...