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...facing what could be a make-or-break challenge to its Stage II efforts to restrain union pay demands. The crunch will come in its attempt to hold the critical Teamsters contract settlement within the Administration's "voluntary" guideline limits of 7% a year in wage and benefit increases. On the 13th floor of a hotel overlooking Arlington National Cemetery, union and management negotiators have been bargaining in earnest for more than a week to shape a new master freight agreement for the Teamsters' 270,000 drivers and loaders. The two sides have until midnight this Saturday, March...
...union is demanding an increase of 75? an hour in the first year and 50? in each of the next two years. Members now earn about $9.40 an hour, and long-distance drivers can make $30,000 a year. The drivers are also asking for bigger employer contributions to benefit plans and larger cost-of-living boosts. In all, the demands would come to a three-year increase of 35% to 38%, well above the guidelines...
Forty years after Freud's death, the effectiveness of his therapy is still being debated, even among psychiatrists and psychologists who generally accept his theories and discoveries. (A sample panel discussion, scheduled for next month in New York City: "The Outcome of Psychotherapy: Benefit, Harm or No Change?") Psychoanalysts usually cite the "one-third" rule of thumb: of all patients, one-third are eventually "cured," one-third are helped somewhat, and one-third are not helped at all. The trouble is that most therapies, including some outlandish ones, also claim some improvement for two-thirds of their patients. Critics argue...
Citing figures that show Cambridge landlords pay the highest percentage of rental income in taxes, Fraiman said that ending rent control would benefit "all the city's taxpayers...
...welcoming Carter, the Egyptian leader pointedly referred to the linkage question. Said Sadat: "We are determined to enable our Palestinian brothers to realize their national rights and regain their freedom." This prompted Carter to depart from his prepared response in order to include "the Palestinians" among those who would benefit from "the state of peace for this region." Carter also assured Sadat that an Israeli-Egyptian agreement would only be part of "a comprehensive peace, a peace that would reflect the legitimate needs of all those who have suffered so deeply during the last 30 years of conflict, enmity...