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...company and two claims adjusters. To the jury, the case was apparently a classic instance of the little guy v. a big corporation. To a lawyer for Mutual, which has filed a motion to throw out the award, it was a "runaway verdict" that would only help to hike premium costs for all health-insurance policyholders...
...reached a 13-year high of 6.5%, his own top advisers were telling him something quite different (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Both Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, have already let it be known that they favor a gasoline-tax hike. In a joint press conference, they also suggested that they might support a general tax cut, since the re cession is turning out to be sharper than expected. Even Ford's visitors from abroad, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, pressed him to take...
...deal with growing inflation will bite deep into student pocketbooks: For graduate students, it was the Faculty Council's approval Wednesday of an all-new, crack-down tuition policy for those who don't pay tuition, and for undergraduates it was Dean Rosovsky's startling prediction of a $600 hike next year in student fees...
With auto sales in their worst slump since 1958, it hardly seemed appropriate for anyone - let alone an auto executive - to favor proposals that would make driving more expensive. Yet that is what Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II is doing. He wants a 100-per-gal. hike in federal gasoline taxes, with the resulting $11 billion raised annually going to assist the poor and unemployed...
...Guarantees. N.U.J. leaders maintain that their bid to establish closed shops is a tactic designed only to strengthen the union and hike wages -not to control editorial policy. But the publishers and many of their editors, including Alastair Hetherington of the highly respected Guardian, contend that what is at stake is freedom of the press. They claim that hi the past, labor pressure has forced the removal of articles critical of unions. Now, editors fear, in a closed-shop situation their jobs would depend on what they say in print. Said the London Times: "If the editor can be required...