Word: standard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the Administration is working to revise and make more flexible its voluntary wage-price guidelines. They currently limit wage and benefit increases to 7% a year, which is well below the auto settlement. Indeed, there is talk that the wages and benefits achieved in Detroit could become the standard for the new guidelines. If that means approving settlements of close to 12% annually over the next year, the Administration's chances of effectively combatting inflation...
...slablike structures that dot the Cuban landscape like Levittowns, their mass-produced white facades disrupting Cuba's naturally palmy beauty and aesthetically appealing Spanish architecture. The country's massive new construction efforts have little to do with aesthetics and even building quality. Instead, their purpose is to provide minimum standard housing to all Cubans as quickly and cheaply as possible...
Arguing that "quirks in the American way of life have led to the gratuitous use of energy," the Edinburgh students said that the American standard of living and subsequent energy waste has influenced the rest of the world...
...People expect us, by virtue of our size and mission, to adhere to a purer standard than (other) private institutions," Brewer said, adding quickly that he does not object to that role for the University. "I think we ought to act toward our neighbors in neighborly fashsion...
Texaco previously announced it intends to freeze heating oil prices this winter, and received the praise of President Carter as a standard for the industry...