Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reserve powers." Instead, she has already announced her own positive "interventionist", policy, inviting unions to negotiate wage increases of any size-as long as they are based on equal gains in productivity. She was quick to applaud just that kind of an agreement recently (even though it will boost some wages 46% over three years) between Rootes Motors and two unions. She also hopes to encourage companies to establish management-labor committees on productivity. Her plan has some merit: British productivity has for years been the despair of economists, who equally blame rigid labor attitudes and casual management policies...
...McCarthy, apart from a significant psychological boost, the win should ease fund-raising problems in the last week of the California campaign, and possibly help bring back some members of the student corps currently studying for exams...
...next four years, and for the first time in years, thanks to a federal grant, Cleveland will have an unpolluted municipal beach. Not everything, to be sure, is perfect: voters have hiked police and firemen's salaries, putting even greater pressure on Stokes to push through a boost in the city income tax from ½% to 1%. Admitting many mistakes since he took office, Stokes nevertheless can now say proudly: "We've come a long, long way. One thing we won't do is allow the status quo to continue...
...guard among its 110 members. The conservatives, in turn, hope to have rallied enough support by then to turn Dubcek out of office and replace him with Alois Indra, 47, a onetime railway worker who sees things Moscow's way. He may get an open boost from Kosygin if Dubcek is unwilling to put the brakes on his reform program...
...Moscow's wrath; he is in enough trouble with Russia already. A series of recent head-on clashes with the Kremlin has so fractured relations that Rumania is no longer welcome at high-level Communist conferences. The open display of support from De Gaulle was thus a welcome boost to Ceauşescu, whose position in the Soviet-dominated camp is becoming increasingly isolated. While De Gaulle seeks to broaden his contacts in Eastern Europe, Ceauşescu hopes for more tangible economic and political results from the visit, such as greater access to Western technology and the promise...