COWPS
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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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Offenders would first be warned privately 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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This has placed a staggering burden on COWPS' 130-member staff.
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