Word: breit
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...were not assuaged by the fact that Kohl and his Cabinet members have promised to take a 5% cut in salary. Union leaders closeted themselves with the new Chancellor after he returned from France for what was described by a union aide as an afternoon of "economic swordplay." Ernst Breit, leader of the country's 8 million-member German Trade Union Confederation termed the wage-freeze idea "totally unnegotiable." Even among pro-business spokesmen, who generally support Kohl, the wage-freeze idea was greeted with trepidation. Rolf Rodenstock, president of the Cologne-based Federation of German Industry, feared...
DIED. Gregory Breit, 82, Russian-born physicist who took part in research leading to the first atomic explosion in 1945, and seven years later affirmed theoretical evidence downplaying the possibility that the hydrogen bomb might cause a "runaway" superexplosion; of cancer; in Salem...