Word: across-the-board
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...Famed Cambridge restauranteur Thomas Stefanian reveals a stunning set of price increases at his Mt. Auburn St. luncheonette, which includes 40 per cent across-the-board hikes on all grill foods. "I had to keep up with OPEC," Stefanian says, inadvertently revealing the secret of his tasty subs...
...radical reassessment of his priorities. In recent weeks, strikes by workers angered over the country's inflation rate (currently 50%) have paralyzed the nationalized oil refineries, postal service, airline, and copper and steel industries. The nation's balance of payments deficit exceeds $5.5 billion. To pay for an across-the-board wage increase for at least 1 million workers, and for subsidized housing and other social projects, the Shah has canceled $7 billion worth of American and European military orders, including the controversial U.S. AWAC airborne warning system. He is also scrapping plans to build 20 nuclear plants, a modern...
...should rush the U.N.-endorsed proposal for internationally supervised elections through the Security Council--preferably before the Nationalist party finishes selecting a new South African prime minister -- and present the South Africans with the demarche accompanied by an ultimatum: either accept U.N.-supervised elections in Namibia, or face across-the-board economic sanctions from the nations of the world. The time has come for the West to take bold action to challenge South African intransigence...
Then the Republicans launched their first attack. Maryland's Marjorie Holt proposed an across-the-board cut of $21.4 billion. After a few minutes of debate on an almost empty House floor, Democratic leaders thought they could easily block her amendment. Suddenly, Republican Congressmen, who had been waiting in the Speaker's lobby and the Republican cloakroom, poured into the chamber. The Democrats hastily regrouped. Speaker Tip O'Neill wandered around the floor, glowering and muttering at potential Democratic defectors. Majority Leader James Wright of Texas collared three Democrats and persuaded them to vote the leadership line...
...huge Communist-dominated C.G.T. (General Confederation of Labor), Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais, and Robert Fabre, head of the Left Radical Party that had been allied with the Socialists and Communists in the elections. Séguy's "demands" came straight out of the handbook of inflation: across-the-board salary increases, including a 37% hike in the minimum wage to $520 a month, and increases in pensions and other social benefits. Marchais spent an hour with Giscard, pleading, he said, on behalf of "millions of workers who have reached the limit of their endurance." Afterward, the Communist leader...