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...obviously cruder than fingerprinting, and could provide only an indication of the size and shape of a criminal's shoes. Still, the Home Office, which encouraged Greenwood in his research, has hopes that the technique will prove useful to detectives. Electrostatic shoeprints, for instance, could give some hint of the size and sex of a culprit, reveal how many people were involved in a caper and even allow police to trace their movements...
Bankers see in this jawboning a threat that the Administration might place controls on rates. The committee itself has given no public hint of what kind of line it might pursue, though the Federal Reserve has the power to restrain certain rates. This week New York's First National City Bank and Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank & Trust lowered their prime rates from 5? to 5¾. In addition, New York's Bankers Trust gave up the practice of automatically keeping its prime loan rate slightly above such key money market rates as those for commercial paper and certificates of deposit...
...Price Commission. Businessmen insist that the increases are not so great as they seem because last year's earnings were abnormally low. Even so, the roseate profit reports are certain to inflate labor demands next year when several important union contracts come up for renegotiation. One hint of Big Labor's mood: United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock has said that automakers' fat 1972 profits could pay for almost any wage packet that his union might demand...
...dollar by more (16.89%) than any other currency. Japanese businessmen want to avoid another such jolt at all costs. As a result Japan's trading partners, who have long sought to reason and cajole Tokyo into removing some of its formidable trade barriers, are finding that a mere hint of revaluation can work small wonders...
...second Nixon Administration. Neil Jacoby, a Republican member of the Pay Board, has suggested that the guideline for wage increases might be lowered to "around 4%" from the present 5.5%. Nixon is under pressure from businessmen to relax the guideline on profit margins, but he has given no hint whether he will...