Word: benefited
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...once he has felt the companies out, he will surely inflate one of his goals into a major issue. Though he has mentioned no specific wage hikes, he talks of creating new jobs through earlier retirement or a shorter work week. He wants to improve pension and unemployment-benefit plans, wants production workers to be paid salaries instead of hourly wages, wants the companies to pay all of hospital insurance premiums. He also wants the U.A.W. to share in "the fruits of automation"-but says he is willing to listen to the companies' ideas about how this...
This benign philosophy does not prevent Seaton from being a tough and savvy bargainer. "That amiability of his," la ments Leonard Woodcock, "doesn't lead him to give away anything at the bargaining table." Because he helped pioneer G.M.'s labor relations in the '30s without benefit of a degree in law or psychology, Seaton likes to call himself a "barnyard bargainer." But he is a pretty slick country boy. A regular reader of dozens of union publications, he has an intimate understanding of the political realities of the labor movement, on occasion has stayed...
...anticipate. I could not influence. My status was too modest," he said. "I was only dealing with train timetables and technical aspects of evacuation transports." In this small role, rationalized Eichmann, he actually helped the Jews: "It cannot be denied that this orderliness was to some extent to the benefit of the people who were deported, if one might be allowed to use the word." But faced with the emigration job, Eichmann told the court, he realized he could help the Jews by forcibly "facilitating" the work of the Zionists. "The real solution would be for the Jews to have...
...like a split-bearded king, who later in the day gave the best reply to Bryant's question. "There is a moral fiber that is not there today in TV," he said. "Heads of networks are individually decent, sensible and intelligent. But they pursue the wrong for the benefit of profit. Television doesn't represent ourselves to ourselves. It should not dedicate itself to the least common denominator. Every country which did that collapsed. That's my quibble with Communism. It aims everything at the least common denominator...
PUBLIC POWER : Goldwater voted to free gas producers from federal regulation, opposed federal ownership of Hells Canyon Dam in 1956. But he supported the $1 billion, federally sponsored Upper Colorado River Storage Project, which will mightily benefit his Arizona constituents...