Word: across-the-board
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Only on Opening Day are all teams and all fans equal, it's said. No wins, no losses, no slumps or streaks. Just the uniform prospect of 162 regular-season contests, the across-the-board possibility of post-season play, the common anticipation of endless summertime...
...cabinet has proposed three methods ofcutting the budget, said Sanchez. Possibilitiesinclude across-the-board cuts, an $800 cap on allprograms, or a progressive budget cut that wouldimpose proportionally harsher reductions on thelarger groups...
...Columbia, the union and administration also face a June 30 deadline for a new contract. Union organizer Rosenstein says she expects Columbia to maintain its hard line toward the local, despite concessions made three years ago, when the union got a six percent per year across-the-board raise, dental and major medical coverage and a grievance procedure...
...Suitland High in downtrodden Suitland, Md., Principal Joseph Hairston also prizes his teachers, recruited from schools all over the country. He treats them with respect as part of what he calls the "corporate style" and says he wants to "professionalize the workplace." Lately he has been lobbying for across-the-board raises. Hairston believes in discipline (which he prefers to call "reality therapy") and has greatly diversified the curriculum -- "from dance to drafting," even to Russian. Under such policies reading scores have soared into the 87th percentile nationally from a dismal 28th. Math scores are up from...
...unions' economic proposals, which have been on the table for several weeks, call for 7 percent across-the-board salary increases for each of the next three years, university-subsidized daycare for employees' children, paid maternity leave, increased monitoring of health and safety issues, and improvement of mental and dental insurance, Fortes said...