Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came the first hopeful development in the revolt. During the debate, Pompidou had gently urged that the labor leaders sit down with him to talk about a settlement. Séguy sent a message that he was ready to bargain; the leaders of the two other big unions expressed similar sentiments. The unions also formulated their demands: a 50% minimum-wage hike, a 40-hour week (v. 45 to 48 hours at present), improved medical benefits, retirement at 60 (v. 65). Such bargaining might yet lead France back into a rational, if highly inflationary, world...
Miracle Without Fizz. Onetime Marxist Nenni had struck a courageous and dangerous bargain five years ago when he took his Socialist Party into a Center-Left coalition with Italy's dominant Christian Democrats. Hoping to move the Christian Democrats to do far more for Italy's middle-class and poor citizens, Nenni cut his ties with the powerful Communist Party, merged with the moderate Social Democrats, abandoned his opposition to Italy's participation in NATO, and even took an "understanding" position toward the U.S. role in Viet Nam. In return, the Christian Democrats promised improvements in housing...
Duke University students in Durham, N.C., recently demonstrated on behalf of the university's maintenance employees, most of them Negro, who struck for the right to bargain collectively. "To see these middleclass, Southern white kids treating semiliterate Negro maids and janitors with dignity and respect, without any condescension, is heartening," says Faculty Member Samuel Cook. "They're not only breaking the color barrier, but the class and educational barriers." In San Francisco, 150 Bay area physicians and health workers have organized as the Medical Committee for Human Rights to mediate between the Black Panthers, one of the more...
...have brought the U.S. to its knees, the talks could dissolve over that initial issue, for Johnson is determined not to end the air raids without some concession, even a modest one, from Hanoi. And the U.S. can argue that Hanoi already enjoys by far the better of the bargain. While 79% of the North is now free of bombing, Rusk noted last week, "not one square mile in South Viet Nam has any assurance of immunity from attacks by the Viet Cong...
Eshkol's cabinet, meantime, is divided over how much of the occupied territory it will be willing to bargain over in any negotiations, some wanting to return none at all and others willing to give part; nobody wants to give it all back. The results of a poll by Israel's Dachaf agency last week show that an overwhelming 87% approve the government's policy of refusing to give back any territory until the Arabs agree to direct talks with Israel. Surprisingly, 78% are willing to give back one or more pieces once negotiations begin...