Word: pricing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Budget Director Robert Mayo were working with Nixon in California to put the final touches on the new budget. Part of their difficulty is with what Washington budget watchers call "the un-controllables": unavoidable automatic rises in payments for Medicare, Social Security and farm support. Another factor is the price of funding the national debt, a cost that has been driven up by the high interest rates of the Government's own anti-inflationary tight-money policies. Educated estimators put the size of the upcoming budget for fiscal 1971 at between $198 billion and $202 billion...
...going over the heads of the elected lawmakers. Accordingly, he invoked a law left over from the days of the autocratic Ngo Dinh Diem to decree a massive austerity program that sought to soak up cash surpluses by sharply increasing taxes. Honda motorcycles quickly leaped in price from $200 to $400 and American cigarettes from $2.10 to $2.80 a carton...
...some notable economic progress. Since 1967, he has succeeded in reducing the inflation rate from an appalling 650% a year to roughly 7%, a performance described as "highly remarkable" by Indonesia's major creditors when they met in Amsterdam last month to approve a $600 million loan. The price of rice, a basic indicator, has remained relatively steady, but corruption remains a serious obstacle. "Nothing has really changed," says an American with long experience in the country, "except that the army...
Plainly, Labor's draconian economic measures are finally beginning to pay off. Beginning in the summer of 1966, Prime Minister Harold Wilson put Britain under severe financial controls which included a wage-price freeze, higher income taxes and a tightening of credit. In November 1967, he devalued the pound by 14.3%. His aim was to reduce consumer demand at home while coaxing industry to sell more abroad...
...choice as First Lady), or any of the $600 Mollie Parnis outfits beloved by Lady Bird Johnson; Mrs. Nixon spends only about $145 for a daytime ensemble, $300 to $400 for a formal gown. Miss Treyz's fee is the difference between the wholesale and retail price. When a choice is made-as many as 50 possibilities are shown to Mrs. Nixon by designers who drop into her New York hotel suite at appointed hours during her stay-the dress is custom-made and withdrawn from production to avoid a run-in with a ditto...