Word: widener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does Jerry Brown as the attacks on Carter widen...
...monthly gold auction on Wednesday, there were bids for 1.6 million troy oz., but only 444,000 were available. The shortage has developed in part because the U.S. Treasury decided last May to cut its regular gold offerings to 750,000 oz., a 50% reduction. The supply gap could widen because the IMF gold auctions are scheduled to stop next May, the Soviets have reduced their sales to roughly two-thirds of last year's, and South African production has decreased by about 25% over the past decade...
...What happens next? So far, the city has received more federal cash per capita for transit construction than any other U.S. urban area, but UMTA has not made any substantial commitments for funds after 1981. MARTA'S advocates are especially fearful, since the Federal Highway Administration plans to widen the expressways next to one main route of the proposed MARTA line. Unless MARTA can grow into a full-fledged network of interlocking routes, it will end up an uneconomic and inconvenient half measure that hould not have been started in the first place...
...from $42 billion in 1978 to some $65 billion in 1979-in effect, a direct levy of fully $747 per year on every American taxpayer. To keep consumer spending from going into a freefall, the Government may be forced to chop its own receipts instead. But doing so would widen the federal deficit and pump yet more inflation into the economy even as output is declining. Quite a bit of U.S. economic policy is being made as much in Riyadh and Tehran as in Washington...
Rich settlements for Big Labor can only widen the pay gap between its members, who have been gaining increases of 8½% to 9% so far this year, and nonunion workers, who have been getting wage-and-benefit increases averaging 7½%. Says Economist Audrey Freedman of the Conference Board, a private research group: "Managers who want to hold on to their best people are getting very uncomfortable with the disparity in pay between union and nonunion workers." Adds Economist Robert Nathan, a Washington consultant who has close ties to labor: "If unions' increases continue to be large...