Word: cent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
High priorities on the union's list of demands include an unspecified cost-of-living allowance, a 13 to 20 per cent wage increase, additional holidays, and improved fringe benefits, Fred Walden, vice president for Local 26, said yesterday...
...Hoaglands, who own 10 per cent of Eugene's, will not try to reopen the restaurant. "We wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole," Hoagland said...
Kiley's state houses the Chem Nuclear Corporation's low-level waste disposal site, which until recently received more than 80 per cent of all solid waste produced in the United States...
...school system, largest single item in the city budget, provides a good example. To meet King's tax cap would entail the virtual destruction of the city's schools. Even with a 13 per cent spending increase, many supports will be removed from an already shaky system. But, as school superintendent William Lannon and Cambridge mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 have pointed out, the city is caught in a double bind. If taxes are raised too much, it may add further fuel to the tax-cutting fires and impair the city's ability to meet its citizens' needs even further...
...urge the City Council to override King's cap, as it now appears likely to do. City employees need more than a 4 per cent pay increase when inflation is nearly five times that figure. And city services are not so bountiful that cutbacks are possible without touching basic necessities. The school committee should even consider increases in Lannon's bare-bones "educationally sound" budget. In a year when the system faces desegregation and is still recovering from a year marred by trouble, cuts in the level of services may turn out to be pound-foolish...