Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year. The lowest-paid workers will get an 18.4% increase initially. In addition, each of the 352,000 workers covered will get a $150 cash bonus. The increases go into effect May 1-the day after wage-price controls are expected to die-though the current contract extends to Aug. 1. A liberalized and potentially expensive escalator clause will add a penny an hour to wages for each rise of three-tenths of a point in the consumer price index...
...dairymen's political finagling is not yet fully known by federal probers, but it clearly included huge campaign contributions to many candidates for national and state offices. What the milk producers were after, of course, was higher prices for their products. At a meeting in Washington on Aug. 4, 1970, former AMPI Attorney Jake Jacobsen advised officers of the cooperative that "one way a small group makes itself heard is to help the politicians get into office. It works the same way from the President on down...
Third Version. Only when he discussed a detail of his own Watergate role did Nixon's confidence seem to ebb. His voice grew tremulous as he described his increasingly crucial conversation with John Dean, his former counsel, on March 21,1973. In a statement last Aug. 15, Nixon said Dean had told him that secret payments had been made to the original Watergate defendants only to meet their legal costs. On March 6 of this year, however, Nixon said flatly in a press conference that Dean had told him on March 21 that the cash was meant...
Nixon's version also contains one significant difference from an earlier written account of the payments that he gave on Aug. 15. "I was only told that the money had been used for attorneys' fees and family support, not that it had been paid to procure silence from the recipients," he said then. Last week he admitted that Dean had told him the true and illegal use of the cash. The fact that Nixon also conceded last week that he and Dean had "examined all of the options at great length" indicated that the illegal payments were...
...people living there of their national resources for the profit of the privileged few here in the USA. This was made splendidly clear, as far as Indochina is concerned at least, by President Eisenhower in a speech to the Governor's Conference in Seattle, Wash., Aug. 4, 1953 in which he mentioned the rich resources of the area and mentioned tin and tungsten among others. (The New York Times, Aug...