Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spending cuts would jeopardize the key element in the Labor government's strategy to pull Britain back from its economic abyss: an agreement by the leadership of the Trades Union Congress to hold wage increases to 4½% ($4.61 on an average worker's salary) beginning Aug. 1 (TIME, May 10). In return, Healey offered a significant income tax break for lower-income workers...
...last Aug. 24, Ronald Salem, 34, white, stopped to purchase a package of cigarettes at a corner store in Columbia Point, a predominantly black housing project in Boston's Dorchester section. As he returned to his car he was slammed across the head with a baseball bat. Surgeons at Boston City Hospital operated in vain; two days later, tests for brain waves showed none. Salem was dead...
That delight in line continued. But after World War II, Aalto abandoned crisp functionalism-"inhuman dandy-purism," he called it. His freestanding works became more complicated and took on steadily more mysterious, evocative forms (TIME, Aug. 25). His grand public structures-most notably Finlandia House, Helsinki's conference and concert center-stir an exhilarating sense of place and occasion. Aalto's town halls, designed for Seinäjoki, Säynätsalo and other small Finnish cities, use light and space to create a kind of civic intimacy. No concept was too large for his attention...
Rarely if ever before had a British Labor Party heavyweight made such a boast. Yet last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey was fairly cheering that the pay raises his countrymen would receive in the year beginning Aug. 1 are "likely to be below those in probably all Western developed countries." Healey's seemingly perverse enthusiasm was not misplaced: his negotiations achieved a union wage accord that was a needed early triumph for Prime Minister James Callaghan's five-week-old government...
Inflation continues to be a formidable threat to the European comeback, but even the price front showed promising news last week. Leaders of Britain's powerful unions tentatively agreed with the government to accept stringent new voluntary wage controls, to take effect Aug...