Word: across-the-board
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...Community Relations Service to the Justice Department, fell short by a 42 to 32 vote that displayed unaccustomed G.O.P. solidarity. After barely failing to eliminate $12 million in rent-subsidy appropriations the week before, the Republican House leadership abandoned attempts at selective pruning, instead touted an across-the-board cut of 5% on all domestic appropriations. Unable to trim bills totaling $8.4 billion to finance several executive departments, House Republicans restrained their frugal impulses long enough to join unanimously in adding $109 million to a bill raising federal employees' salaries...
Radcliffe has made two concessions to the off-campus students who protested the recent "across-the-board" increase in room and board rates...
...happened, Kennedy himself found the guidelines little more than a handy thing to mention in State of the Union speeches. The guidelines had hardly anything to do with his successful though costly battle to make U.S. Steel roll back an announced $6-per-ton across-the-board price hike in 1962. On that memorable occasion, Kennedy simply felt that he had been double-crossed by U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, and he lost his Irish temper...
...Steel, next only to Bethlehem and U.S. Steel as a producer of structural shapes, to stand pat. Wirtz had every reason to believe that Inland and its Chairman Joseph L. Block would cooperate: after all, it had been Block's refusal to go along with a proposed across-the-board price increase that forced the rest of the industry to knuckle under to Jack Kennedy...
...York's newspaper battles seem very distant. The publishers remain hopelessly split in their thinking; during negotiations they could scarcely agree even on routine matters. The ten craft unions are also snarling at one another. The skilled unions-Printers, Photoen-gravers, Machinists-are beginning to balk at across-the-board wage increases; they want percentage increases that would bring them more money. The unskilled-Mailers, Deliverers, Paper Handlers-on the other hand, want to stick to flat-sum increases, which, at their lower pay rates, would mean more money to them...