Word: across-the-board
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...union, meeting in its Pemberton Square headquarters in Boston, will consider the University's proposal last week for a 10-cent across-the-board hourly wage increase. Earlier, the local had voted to strike unless its demands for a flat 10 percent raise were...
...University, in a closed bargaining session with the A.F.L. Cooks and Pastry Cooks Union, raised its initial offer of a six percent across-the-board increase to a flat ten-cent hourly raise. Both proposals would be retroactive to the beginning of the academic year...
British Novelist Alec Waugh, after writing for years in the shadow of his younger brother Evelyn, at last tasted fame and fortune. His new novel, Island in the Sun, to be published in January, has made an across-the-board clean sweep of U.S. literary jackpots: 1) the Ladies' Home Journal is serializing it; 2) the Literary Guild has chosen it; 3) the Reader's Digest Book Club will digest it; and 20th Century-Fox will film...
...faculty of Arts and Sciences first learned of the across-the-board rise at its weekly meeting on March 1. This date would seem to preclude the possibility that rises in the two faculties were influenced by the Ford Foundation's recent $50 million grant to aid University faculty salaries throughout the country...
Specific proposals for the new leagues will come from the Princeton Athletic Director, R. Kenneth Fairman, who will recommend an across-the-board program of round-robin competition in these sports. "If we don't pass it now, we're never going to do it," Fairman said last night...