COWPS
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COWPS, however, has no power to do anything except complain�and perhaps pass the buck to President-elect Jimmy Carter, who is committed to trying to get industry and labor to follow voluntary wage-price guidelines.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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