Word: paces
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Republicans in Congress, who had been complaining about the dawdling pace of the peanut probe all along, immediately protested Bell's action, saying that he had not gone far enough to free the special counsel from possible Justice Department interference. Republican Presidential Hopeful Robert Dole called the special counsel role "a perversion of the whole concept of an impartial investigation." Said Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, who is also expected to declare for the presidency: "It is not proper for the Administration to be dragged kicking and screaming into this investigation...
...Teamsters are used to hefty settlements, and won more than 10% annually in their last contract. If they can somehow be persuaded to stay even close to this year's 7% guideline, the other pace-setting unions that will negotiate contracts later in 1978-the electrical, rubber and auto workers-may moderate their demands. But should the Teamsters gravely breach the guides, 3.3 million other union members whose contracts expire this year will probably feel free to go for broke. As one of the Administration's inflation fighters put it: "If we lose master freight, we can forget...
...McDonald's 5,200 outlets, which account for about 20% of the $20 billion spent last year on fast food, generated earnings of $163 million on sales of $4.6 billion in 1978. McDonald's opened 500 new outlets last year and expects to continue expanding at that pace for the next three to five years. But that cannot make up for the slowdown in annual earnings growth, which dropped to 19% last year from roughly 40% five years ago. Since last fall the average month-to-month sales rise at McDonald's stores, which used...
...meet the public's and the Government's demand for cars that are less thirsty as well as less polluting, Detroit has no choice except to accelerate its pace of change. Says General Motors President Elliott ("Pete") Estes: "We have made tremendous progress over the last four years. But in the next five years we're going to make that look like child's play...
...that had been, so the faithful believed, desecrated by the Shah's modernizations and the widespread, profound corruption of everyday life. Iranians were caught in an intolerable bind: their daily routines were elaborately oppressed by a stupid, corrupt bureaucracy, and yet everything in Iran (costs, salaries, the pace of change) was moving at ungodly speeds. Eastern European official stolidity was impossibly combined with Western velocity...