Word: across-the-board
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...preface to the report said, "There has been no recent across-the-board analysis" of human resources agencies, umbrella organizations which administer several social services...
...claims that the Americanists are acting outside the terms of the center's endowments, but several senior members of the History Department said this week they feel the Warren Center alters the pay scale in the department, making it a "star system" rather than the across-the-board equity Harvard technically maintains...
...policy. I am sorry to say that has not been the case. Carter is righting with Congress the same way Ford did, and he has ended up being saddled with a stimulus package that is unbalanced. There is virtually nothing in it for the middle class. The only across-the-board benefit would have been the $50 rebate. Carter spent a lot of political capital in trying to get it, and then lost face by abandoning it. It hasn't been an auspicious beginning...
...mainstream job vacancies that appear. Substantial action is needed to deregulate areas of the economy where government stifles competition and holds up prices. Transportation is a key example. Actions that reduce the competition from imports should be avoided. Most important, we need an income policy. It cannot be across-the-board wage and price controls−they are ultimately far too rigid for a dynamic economy...
Global Boycott. Firestone and the other companies protested that operations producing shoe heels or tennis balls face intense competition from nonunion factories, and could not afford to pay tire-factory wages. The U.R.W. may compromise on this point, but across-the-board raises are another matter. Just before the strike deadline, Firestone increased its wage offer by a dime, to a $1.15 hourly raise over three years, and offered a COLA that would be activated if the Consumer Price Index rose more than seven percentage points in any one year. Peter Bommarito, 60, the U.R.W.'s tireless, white-moustached...