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...Upward Updike...
...results, the Reagan Administration is convinced that it has adopted the proper course. Says a senior State Department official: "We see it as a long-term proposition. There are dips and bobs and weaves, good days and bad days. But the trend of the process is generally forward and upward, in a slow, erratic way." Just how slow and erratic may be decided in January, when the Administration must again certify to Congress that progress is being made on human rights and social reform in El Salvador...
...council and an arcane "prevailing wage clause" in the city charter, dating from 1925. In practice, the prevailing wage clause, requiring the city to pay its employees salaries at least equal to comparable jobs in the private sector, has become the rock-bottom minimum from which wage demands spiral upward...
Trading in 100-share blocks on the New York Stock Exchange, one frequently used measure of small-investor activity, accounted for 10.5% of all orders in April 1973, but by last August it had slid to 1.7%, a historic low. In September, however, small-block trading turned significantly upward for the first time in more than two years...
...Government s huge borrowing requirements. The US Treasury must raise nearly $16 billion to $17 billion in new funds within the next month. That is far more than the $1.2 billion in new corporate bonds announced for the next four weeks. Washington's need for credit may put upward pressure on interest rates and be a damper on any recovery...