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...leaps toward ending revenue sharing with the states. After all, Congressmen have to be reelected or they'd be out of a job. Think how much easier it is to win votes if federal taxes haven't increased. And since the defense budget is going to jump 22 per cent next year, the money is going to have to come from somewhere...
Other parts of the city budget may suffer less. In an effort to stay within Gov. Edward J. King's 4 per cent limit on tax increases, City Manager James L. Sullivan ordered every department head to request no more than 2 per cent over last year's budget. "No budget request came in much above that, and some came in a little below," Sullivan said. But figure out the math. If inflation stays above 15 per cent, and budgets only increase 2 per cent, then total spending in real dollars will decrease dramatically. For a year, maybe two, inflation...
...list of demands submitted by the dining workers calls for either a 13-to 20-per-cent wage increase or an across the board raise of 50 cents to $1 an hour...
Walden said the University offered a three-year pact with successive 10-, 9- and 8-per-cent wage increases across the board. The proposal included no additional fringe benefits, but the University said if the union accepted the pact without entering into a bargaining process it would make the pay increase retroactive to April 1, Walden said, adding that the union membership voted down the proposal...
Although this accusation can be excused by the trauma of Ezera's experience, it is not an isolated example of Black overreaction. Other recent examples include the use of capitalization in Russell's editorial (e.g. "two security officers, on Black and one white," "70 people, 60 per cent Black and 40 per cent white," etc.); the demanded creation of ethnic studies departments in Chicano, Boricuan (Puerto Rican), Latin American, Asian American and Native American Studies; and the accusations (which were later dropped) against proposed Afro-Am Professor Lawrence W. Levine...