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...what marriage does to people-that kind of ownership that two people put on each other. That's what is so exciting about these times. No one has to be locked in. It's fun not to worry about what people are thinking, or to have to conform to patterns. Feeling useful-outside of the family-that's what the movement is about. I've lucked out on Women's Liberation...
...merit increases was its third. It stated that existing provisions for merit increases, whether written into labor contracts or applied as part of a company's general salary policy, can result in pay boosts of no more than 7% annually. Moreover, most new merit contracts or plans must conform to the even lower 5.5% guideline for overall pay increases. The board's last previous position had made union merit raises exempt from the guidelines while holding nonunion employees to the 5.5% rule...
...came by her interest in Annapolis naturally: her father is an Annapolis graduate and her mother was once a WAVE officer. Brimmer has been the subject of a lengthy debate between Javits and Secretary of the Navy John Chaffee. Argued Javits: "I seek only to have the academy conform to the Navy itself. Some 3.6% of naval officers are women. Shouldn't a similar percentage of Annapolis' entering class and graduates also be women? Shouldn't there at least be one?" Chaffee replied that U.S. law provided for the Navy to admit "sons" of servicemen killed...
...damaged airport or travel the tree-lined main road from Calcutta, it is the relaxed, peaceful atmosphere that is most noticeable. Even as travel to Bangladesh becomes more difficult, customs and immigration officials are genuinely friendly and polite, smiling broadly, cheerily altering your entry forms so that you conform with the latest regulations. There is no antagonism to individual Americans. Once it is known that you are an American, however, the inevitable question is: How could the Nixon Administration have behaved the way that it did? There is in fact an almost universal belief that the American people are with...
...experienced more problems with young escapees than Canada. By far the largest majority of these are deserters, principally from Army bases in Germany. Drugs have been a nagging problem in the major cities. Sweden is a tightly structured society, and some Americans have found it as difficult to conform to the Scandinavian brand of red tape as to military life. Then, too, they are often disappointed to find they can only scrape up menial jobs. As one ex-serviceman growled in a television interview: "I didn't come to Sweden to wash dishes...