Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal judge had struck down President Carter's threat to withhold Government contracts from firms that breached his wage-price guidelines. The loss of the procurement sanction undercuts management's ability to resist granting powerful unions, already contemptuous of the guidelines, fat pay raises. A rash of big settlements for organized labor could also pull up wages for many nonunion workers, who are close to 60% of the work force, and put an even faster spin on the price spiral...
Rich settlements for Big Labor can only widen the pay gap between its members, who have been gaining increases of 8½% to 9% so far this year, and nonunion workers, who have been getting wage-and-benefit increases averaging 7½%. Says Economist Audrey Freedman of the Conference Board, a private research group: "Managers who want to hold on to their best people are getting very uncomfortable with the disparity in pay between union and nonunion workers." Adds Economist Robert Nathan, a Washington consultant who has close ties to labor: "If unions' increases continue to be large...
...entitle the traveler to a 50% discount on any United flight in the continental U.S. from July 1 through Dec. 15. Indeed, people hustling after the discount have bought out United's $14 flights from Los Angeles to San Diego through June 17, the last day of the big giveaway. United began offering the coupons May 28 in an effort to lure back passengers it had lost during a 58-day flight mechanics strike. Soon United's freebie was matched by American Airlines. By the time the promotion ends, United figures that both airlines will have passed...
...life is missing, and Vilas blows him out in the first two sets. How the lad (Dean-Paul Martin) got to Wimbledon, and the reason for his sudden loss of poise, is told in a series of flashbacks intercut with the unfolding drama of the big match...
Other hotels within a fuel tank's distance from big cities have been advertising that gasoline is available to their registered guests for side trips, as well as their return home. Harry Kelley, the expansive mayor of Ocean City, Md., has become something of a national celebrity by appearing on TV and announcing a "secret plan" to assure visitors enough gasoline to get home again...