Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abandon his game plan despite the mounting pressure to take a more active role against inflation. Last week he bowed to the pressure and moved to meet his critics at least part way. The President still refused to pick up the jawbone that his predecessors had wielded on excessive wage and price rises. But he did at least pick up a wishbone and proposed three specific measures to step up the attack on inflation...
...trouble now facing the nation must rest with Mr. Burns. When presidential policies don't work, Mr. Burns has a habit of saying that he disagreed with them at the time. But there is no evidence to suggest that Mr. Burns disagreed with the decision to eliminate the wage-price guidelines, or that he disagreed with the policy of trying to control inflation by relying almost entirely on tight money and high interest rates...
...Argy-Bargy. Wilson's Labor Party is running on its record over the past 51 years, chiefly on the economic successes that saw Britain's balance of payments go from chronic deficits to healthy surpluses and that brought wage increases to millions. Where the Tory campaign motto looks ahead to A BETTER TOMORROW, Labor's takes pride in past accomplishments as well: NOW BRITAIN'S STRONG LET'S MAKE IT GREAT TO LIVE IN. While Tories stress the lawand-order theme, Laborites, convinced that the electorate is surfeited with crisis and contention, deliberately keep...
...shortage in the banking system, lately has been gently reducing the rate of increase. In order to give the board more room to expand money without bringing about further inflation, many of Nixon's advisers-and Congress-have been prodding him to adopt some form of "jawboning" or wage-price guidelines. At week's end, the President was pondering just that, and it seemed more likely than ever that he would soon take a more active role in waging a fight against rising prices...
...minority hiring program. One of the plans it set up with this end in mind was the so-called "painters helper" program. Under this system Harvard hired blacks as painters' helpers in order to give them on-the-job training to become painters. Painters' helpers received a lower wage than painters...