Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight for a $1,200 pay hike and a two-week cut in the 40-week school year. The city, which pays teachers from $5,800 to $10,000, offered $600 and a one-week school-year reduction. Governor George Romney ruled out any increase in state funds to boost salaries and insisted it was "intolerable that the education of children should be used as a pawn in negotiations...
...hour the first year, about 110 an hour during each of the next two. That would gradually raise the typical Ford worker's weekly base pay, at present $146, to about $160. The U.A.W. has called for annual wage-benefit increases of 6%, which would boost weekly income to about $174. So far apart are the two positions that Ford did not even bother to sweeten the pot with a last-minute offer...
...would amount to a 5.2% annual increase in labor costs. Wages would go up by 13? an hour during the first year, by an average of 12? an hour during each of the next two years. For the typical G.M. worker, who earned $7,885 in 1966, this would boost take-home pay by $315 the first year and by about $280 during each of the next...
...Minnesota Twins has been accused of "loading" with both saliva and stickum, but he also has plenty of legal stuff on the ball: last week he pitched his second no-hitter in a month-the first was a rain-shortened, five-inning affair-to beat Cleveland 2-1 and boost the Twins into the American League lead...
...zippy 280-h.p. engine and racing stripes. Roomier than the Mustang, but with a price in the same range (about $2,500), the car itself not only stands to catch on, but, says Company President William Luneburg, its sporty look should also "give the showrooms a traffic boost" for other lines...