Word: across-the-board
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...food service workers union has asked the University for an across-the-board dollar-on-hour wage hike and free medical insurance, as well as seniority-based promotions and a ban on subcontracting food service operations to outside catering agencies. The University has not yet released its proposals for contract changes...
...greater problem would be reconciling the simplicity of the freeze concept with the complexities of maintaining true mutuality and stability in the U.S.-Soviet nuclear competition. Despite President Reagan's alarmism about the Soviets' supposed across-the-board "margin of superiority," the U.S. and the Soviet Union are in a relationship variously described as parity, rough equivalence, or "offsetting asymmetries." The Soviets are ahead in some categories, while the U.S. is ahead in others. But parity is not a static condition; it is dynamic. It is subject to shifting trends in areas that on the Soviet side could...
Underlying the President's speech and many policies of his Administration is a confidence that the U.S. could win such a race. While decrying what they see as an across-the-board inferiority to the Soviet Union by most measures of military power, Administration officials seem to think that the U.S. enjoys a lasting and at least partially compensating advantage in high technology...
...ordered an investigation into procedures for certifying the acceptability of products at the manufacturing site overseas. By approving the factory itself, all products from that factory could be imported freely into Japan. I want to do this on every possible product. I am ordering a comprehensive study of across-the-board legislation to handle all these problems. I should have a report within a month...
...funeral and meeting Andropov there. Now he is urging that Reagan first convene a "no-holds-barred summit" with the Japanese and West European allies next year "so that we're as unified and firm as possible." After that, Nixon says, there should be a "meaningful, across-the-board set of negotiations with the Soviets about all aspects of our relationship," starting with a Reagan-Andropov summit. Among other things, Nixon says, "I want 270 million Soviets to see President Reagan on TV-to see he is not a monster, but a very decent, attractive leader." Concludes Nixon: "During...