COWPS

1. Council on Wage and Price Stability.

Example Sentences

The company claimed that the rise was necessary to cover the cost of the coal strike and settlement; blast furnaces gulp coking coal in great quantity, COWPS, however, figured that the settlement and indirect effects of the strike would add only $4 a ton to steelmaking costs.

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And one official on the COWPS, which administers the standards, sheepishly maintained that the anti-inflation effort "could be just as well off without a guideline program."

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The President's position is so uncertain that COWPS, in blasting the bill, took care to say that it was not speaking for the President.

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The Administration claims that in the six months through last January, Sears increased prices at an annual pace of 4.2%, well over the 3.2% allowed it by COWPS.

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COWPS' 45-page booklet of basic regulations is so loaded with well-intentioned but confusing caveats, qualifications and exceptions that not even lawyers seem able to understand it.

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