Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writers who've made their prejudices about women sportswriters obvious in their profiles of her. Of course, one can't overlook the Times's out-of-court settlement of a 1978 class action suit charging it with discriminatory hinning and promotion practices. Or its subsequent agreement to fill 25 per cent of its senior editorial staff positions with women and other minorities. But as A.M. Rosenthal executive editor of the Times, insists. "We didn't choose a woman sports editor. We choose a sports editor. The fact that she's a woman is not a handicap. In fact...
...union and trucking industry announced the contract agreement late Tuesday, ending a 10-day nation-wide trucking shutdown...
Robert Jungles, president of the Faculty Association, said last night the faculty called off the strike yesterday at 3 a.m., after 18 hours of negotiation resulted in an agreement on the two most controversial issues of tenure and wages...
Over the new year, Jungles said, faculty doing the same work will be assured equal pay. He added that previously there have been large inequities in faculty wages, with women among those on the lower end of the pay scale. Yesterday's agreement provides for a 7-per-cent pay raise for all faculty next year...
...could not have come at a more delicate time. As the oil ministers of the 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries gathered in Geneva for a specially scheduled policy review session, the U.S. President was not only wrapping up an Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement that is bitterly opposed in much of the Arab world, but he was also preparing to announce some energy measures that would stress increased domestic oil production to reduce the nation's perilous dependence on the OPEC cartel. Throughout the industrialized world, meanwhile, governments were struggling to keep alive a recovery from...