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What Is "Unreasonable"? The board left itself free to improve wage and benefit increases totaling more than 5.5% if its members should feel that the circumstances warrant such a move or that equity demands it. It could well grant higher raises, for example, to unions that agree to abandon featherbedding work practices. Low-wage workers who organize themselves into a union might also get clearance for raises larger than 5.5% that would bring their pay into line with previously unionized employees...
...major problem is not military but economic. Facing severe austerity in 1972, Sapir has announced plans to cut back on benefits for immigrants and on the elaborate pageantry planned for Israel's 25th anniversary celebrations. The Treasury is so hard up that Israel was even ready to abandon its claim to the 50 Mirage aircraft held in France under an arms embargo imposed by Charles de Gaulle at the start of the 1967 war. Paris announced last week that it would buy back the planes, which originally cost $67 million...
...presidential suites, and breakfasts were served at 3:30 a.m. for Ahidjo and other Moslems in the group because they were observing the holy month of Ramadan, which requires fasting during daylight. Mrs. Meir, for the first time in Israel's history, ordered the entire Cabinet to abandon its sports-shirt informality and don black ties for a dinner in the visitors' honor...
...guesses that they really hold only $150 million in cash and securities. Most of their $8.2 billion in assets is tied up in unprofitable universities and other schools. However, he figures that they can keep solvent if they concentrate on more businesslike use of their skilled, dedicated manpower, and abandon such unprofitable pastimes as raising vegetables and selling fruitcakes...
...cannot abandon Winthrop House to the jocks too hastily, however, for it is the only House to offer a course in drama: "Hum 96v"--Society and Politics in Western Drama. Given by four tutors in the House, Hum 96v will work on a play (yet to be selected by the members of the course) as a class exercise and will eventually present it in the Loeb Ex in the spring. Hum 96v is one of the only courses for credit at Harvard which includes some practical work in the theatre. (The others are: George Hamlin's freshman seminar in acting...