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...rubber, construction, electrical equipment and autos. They are being renegotiated after two years in which the average hourly earnings of workers in U.S. private industry have risen less than the prices of the goods that the workers buy, so that union leaders are under pressure to push for huge "catchup" increases...
Some reasons for the optimism: unemployment is likely to stay above 7% of the work force, deflecting some of the bargaining push away from big wage increases toward new job-security demands. The rate of inflation already is coming down, taking some steam out of the "catchup" drive. Also, many unions will be demanding new, or more generous, provisions tying wage hikes to the cost of living. If price rises continue to slow, the clauses could keep wage increases moderate...
...standards results from the increase of mass education and from open-admissions programs-although to argue against ever widening opportunity of education is to confront one of the most cherished goals of the American ideal. In any case, teachers all along the line must play a frantic kind of catchup. Colleges blame high school teachers for sending them students who cannot read or write properly; high school teachers blame the schools below; and, with reason, nearly everybody blames the families from which the children come...
Yale coach Joe Vancisin said yesterday. "Our biggest problem thus far has been our shooting. We fall into 5-6 minute lapses and we're forced to play catchup ball...
...disadvantaged-by being black or female or young or Indian or whatever-entitles you to a favored place that is representative of the numbers in your category. The 1972 Democratic Convention went askew on that proposition, and the party is still trying to recapture itself. Minorities who are playing catchup do need all the help they can get in opening up opportunities. But the more rigidly quotas are imposed in a minority's behalf, the more risk there is of transferring to other groups that invaluable but intangible advantage in the equality argument-the sense of being unfairly treated...