Word: although
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...this, the key requirement imposed by Congress is the contribution from Chrysler's workers. Although its blue-collar employees have already agreed to forgo expected wage increases amounting to $203 million in the next three years, Congress insists that an extra $259.5 million be cut. This will force Chrysler and the United Auto Workers to renegotiate the contract that they concluded in November. Said Senator William Roth, the Delaware Republican: "Our proposal would have to be ratified by the workers. Ultimately, it is up to them." White collar employees will also be hit; their wage packages...
...reactionary mullahs were still very much in command of the divided Revolutionary Council. But the situation took a complicating turn when two gunmen assassinated one of Khomeini's close colleagues, Mohammad Mofatteh, dean of Tehran University's College of Theology, and two of Mofatteh's bodyguards. Although an anonymous caller to the state news agency claimed that the killings were committed by a previously unknown terrorist group called P.M., Khomeini and his followers characteristically blamed the assassinations on the U.S. Said the victim's son, Sadegh Mofatteh, 21, a college student: "No matter who pulled...
...Although President Carter will face tremendous political pressure during election year to curb prices, board members felt that he would not try to impose mandatory wage and price controls, and that any attempt to do so would be disastrous. With the exception of Beryl Sprinkel, who figured that there is almost a 50% chance that the President will go for controls, most board members gave that prospect only a 20% to 40% chance. Carter first would need congressional authority and, as the debate raged on Capitol Hill, businessmen would rush to raise prices to get in under the wire. Further...
...badly shaken by last month's attack on the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest shrine in Islam. It was originally reported that the attacking guerrillas were religious fundamentalists who were seeking the recognition of their leader as the Muslim Mahdi or Messiah. Saudi officials later confirmed that although some of the intruders were indeed religious zealots, the majority were politically motivated guerrillas who were trying to destabilize the country. Some Saudis believe that the armed men may have been trained in South Yemen, the Marxist state at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Their real leader, according...
...condemned to wonder what the detective is up to when he examines those cigarettes and whom he sees in that faded snapshot - questions resolved at the proper theatrical instants. Moreover, Karla, in a pivotal chapter, turns out not to be inhuman after all; he has, in fact, Victorian sentiments, although in all previous appearances, he has been nothing but an arachnid...