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...number of consumers say that they are more willing to spend their rebate money now than they would have been earlier this year because they have less fear of hard times. Last week the Government reported that manufacturers' orders for durable goods jumped 9.8% in April, the biggest hike since 1967. Consumer prices in April rose at an annual rate of 7.4%, about double the abnormally low March pace, but the increase was still less than in any month during 1974. Consumers may not follow the detailed figures, but they have heard the forecasts of upturn, and some...
...appearance of Sam Pillsbury's article on rent control two days before a city-wide rent-hike strike is unfortunate. Pillsbury's "balanced" analysis is written from the perspective of the traditional urban planner ignoring the political realities which would scuttle even his most well-intentioned reforms and force tenants to resist rent increase--even though some landlords may be hurt and building maintenance may suffer...
...York State, where the Argonaut Insurance Co. plans to cancel coverage for 27,000 of the state's physicians and 48 hospitals on July 1 (the company was denied a 196.8% rate hike last December), Governor Hugh Carey has proposed a three-part relief package. The Governor's plan would create a state insurance fund, shorten the statute of limitations on malpractice suits, and make it easier to discipline doctors who make avoidable errors. California's state senate has passed and sent along to the legislature's lower house emergency, or "Band-Aid" bills to guarantee...
Ford's theory of the economy is frankly conservative, a workable justification for positions like Ford's proposed hike in food stamp prices. "I happen to think that we should have great opportunity for people in this country to get ahead," Ford told Hersey. "I believe in saving... On the other hand, I enjoy material things... I enjoy nice clothes... I enjoy doing nice things. But I enjoy these things because I worked for them." Of the food stamp program. Ford says, "It's the ones who are sort of the fringe people who cause the most trouble...
...rent action urging non-payment of a citywide rent hike will begin today, a Cambridge Tenants' Organizing Committee spokesman said last night...