Word: push
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...danger of serious business slumps or steep unemployment, has built an inflationary bias into society. Managers and workers have become confident that the state will intervene to stop any sharp business decline. Thus, instead of restraining wage or price demands when the economy slows, companies and unions continually push for more. Adam Smith maintained that each individual seeking his own profit would promote society's good, as if guided by an "invisible hand." But the late economist Arthur Okun argued that the comfortable relationship between Big Business and Big Labor has led to an "invisible handshake" that lifts both wages...
Some would-be reformers push a sort of bubble plan for the whole economy. Despite the state's poor record of ensuring prosperity and stable prices, many left-leaning economists and even some businessmen regard further Government economic planning as the next inevitable step. The Government would fix the broad goals for economic growth and targets for investment and production in specific industries, although the details would be left to private firms. Only in this way, they argue, could inflation be brought under control and a path of steady growth...
...tune up my will so as to be ready for anything. The first thing I did was limit my food intake to 600 calories per day. This induced sharp hunger day and night. The discipline was excellent and worth the severe weight loss. I increased the number of push-ups I did daily from 100 to 200 (in sets of 100) added jumping jacks, jogging along the exterior of the cells and situps. Things were going very well, too well, I decided. I needed more stress to bring my will to maximum power. I turned to my old reliable method...
...Crimson did load the bases in the third frame but failed to push a run across. Billy Blood led off the inning with a clean single to right-center, and Joe Wark and Bauer followed with flyouts...
...raises for salaried employees, who must negotiate contracts with the city this summer, were included with the budget. Combined with a projected 13-per-cent increase in the school budget, those raises will push the final city budget over Gov. Edward J. King's tax cap, Assistant City Manager Robert Healy predicted last night...