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Most observers blame economic woes for Giscard's defeat and the subsequent Socialist domination of the Parliamentary elections. Trained as an economist--which he never let the French forget--Giscard had little excuse for 14 per cent inflation and chronic unemployment...
...reassure and please many voters. By naming a moderate cabinet including highly touted finance minister Jacques Delors and anti-Communist Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy, Mitterand demonstrated that he is far from the ardent revolutionary his opponents portrayed him to be. And by raising the minimum wage 10 per cent, opening discussions on the 35-hour week and making loans more readily available to small-and medium-size firms. Mitterand proved he keeps his promises...
Data Resources had projected 7.9 percent unemployment in 1981, 7.5 per cent in 1982 and 7.1 per cent in 1983 in its "optimistic" outlook released in January. A "pessimistic" projection had unemployment rising to 9 per cent...
...lowering of eligibility standards for participation in the medical plan. The Club will now pay for 100 per cent coverage for any employee who works more than 24 hours per week. Formerly, the Club fully covered only employees who worked 40 hours per week...
Management did not vield on two major union demands. First, the proceeds of a 15-per-cent surcharge added to all bulls at the Club will still go only to the Club--not to the union membership. Tipping will remain prohibited. And pension benefits--which give most workers $4 per month for each year worked at the Club--will remain unchanged...