Word: across-the-board
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When you get right down to it, the underlying reason for our inflation is the continuing popularity of across-the-board wage increases and massive Government spending. The latter supposedly comes "free" via the trickery of deficit spending. I am very much afraid that our politicians, and perhaps also our economists, haven't guts enough to face up to this dilemma...
...immunity encountered opposition even among committee members. Some members said that transactual immunity is perhaps too broad a power with which to equip the commission. The attorney general and various committee members recommended a policy of "use immunity"--immunity with regard to specifics--as a substitute for the across-the-board "transactual immunity." Bellotti encouraged the committee to specifically delinate within the bill the circumstances under which the power of immunity would be used. Without such an amendment, he said, "the special commission poses a direct threat to effective prosecutorial efforts...
...discussing the cost-of-living clause demand, John Shaffer, shop steward for five House dining halls, said yesterday, "We won't accept percentages--we want across-the-board raises...
Shaffer added the Local has in the past accepted contracts that were longer than one year of built-in across-the-board increases after the first year. He said the same will hold for this year's negotiations...
...bill includes extra funds for lower income families, opponents of the bill say programs for lower-income students may eventually be hurt by increasing funding for middle income students. If the budget were to need tightening somewhere in the future, Congress would be more likely to authorize and across-the-board cut in funding for these programs rather than graduating the cuts according to income. Also, the open eligibility for loan subsidies would put low income students into competition with a larger group of people for the same money, and may make borrowing harder for those who need it most...