Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antiaircraft guns who came along to protect the work crews, has alarmed Laotian Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma, who has always treated his northern neighbor cautiously. Fearful of a violent reaction from Peking should he protest, the prince at first ignored the road builders, rationalizing that a fuzzy 1962 aid agreement with Peking may have authorized a route as far as Muong Sai after all. But the new spur into the Beng Valley (see map), he told TIME, was "another affair." When the government asked the Chinese to explain, Peking flatly denied that it was involved in Laos at all. Another...
Every two or three years in Sweden, representatives of labor and management negotiate an umbrella agreement, setting the rates for wage increases across the country. The terms are then written into detailed contracts for each industry. New contracts negotiated last June provided for an increase of 6.5% during the first year, plus another 3.5% the second year. One reason why employers can afford such increases is that the LOs enthusiastically cooperate in raising productivity, which in Sweden alone has gone up at an average of more than 7% a year during the 1960s...
What can the U.S. learn from the Scandinavians? Among other things, there could be more regular contact between labor and management negotiators, prior agreement to negotiate any point of conflict and earlier involvement of national unions in local disputes. Beyond that, the price for labor peace in the U.S. would require that both labor and management relinquish part of their cherished economic sovereignty. So far, the U.S. has not even begun to debate that question...
Under the agreement with the Committee on Houses, the Harvard Under graduate Council, acting for the fasting students, will forward the rebate to the American Friends Service Committee. The funds will support the Quaker group's current relief programs for Vietnamese civilians, including children's refugee centers and hospital facilities for amputees...
...whatever Board determines Project policies. If these "representatives" are simply self-appointed individuals, my judgment is that their views will tend to become less influential over a period of time than if they have been appointed to the task, by the President, on the basis of an informal agreement between the two institutions. However, my judgment may be mistaken. If M.I.T. decides to give full weight to the opinions of individual Harvard members who sit on a Policy Board which it has established unilaterally, the results could be identical to those obtained by having the Harvard members appointed...