Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris last month with an eye toward more stylish Russian dress designs. The Kremlin is considering a new plan upping automobile output, plans to manufacture some $8 billion in consumer goods next year, and has increased workers' wages 4.5% this year -v. Khrushchev's average annual boost of some...
Into Politics. White neighbors complain that the "nig-nogs, wogs, wallah-wallahs and coolies" use their milk bottles for chamberpots (and then return the empties), spit in the streets, and boost the crime rate. Many local police disagree. In Manchester, says Deputy Chief Constable William J. Richards, coloreds actually commit fewer offenses in proportion to their numbers than whites, though they are more often related to dope and prostitution, and thus more likely to hit headlines. "As a police problem," says Richards, "they are no more noticeable than the Irish were 25 years...
...Yankees. Manager Johnny Keane grimly declared: "Anyone who figures we're washed up is just plain foolish." Maybe so. But the Yankees have yet to play their first game against Al Lopez' red-hot White Sox, who last week won five out of seven games to boost their league lead to 2½ games. In 1964 the Yankees beat the Sox 12 out of 18, and Lopez can hardly wait to get even.' The Yankees are hurting," he chortled. "This is the year they lose." And who is going to win? "Well," drawled Lopez...
Sweden's state-run tobacco company uses taxation to help discourage the spread of smoking. Taxes already account for 53? of the 65? that Swedes pay for 20 cigarettes, and Sweden will boost the levy another 8? in July. At 73? a pack (83% of that in taxes), Sweden will still rank below Denmark, where a 90% tax makes a pack of 20 cost 88?, the world's highest price for cigarettes. Swedish officials predict from experience that the boost will bring only a brief and shallow slump in sales...
...management's offers, but this year it got tough. Spurred on by the more powerful Washington chapter, it reorganized as a Washington local. It also imported a veteran Washington negotiator, a move the company denounced as a "Washington takeover." The company's last offer was a $10 boost in minimum pay over two years...