Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration's wage-price guidelines were beset by a tide of woe last week. While the nation's long-haul trucking slowed drastically, representatives of the industry and the striking Teamsters remained unable to agree on a new contract that came near to meeting the Government's "voluntary" limit of 7% in annual wage and benefit increases. At the same time, a walkout by United Airlines machinists, who are also seeking a guideline-busting settlement, grounded all flights of the U.S.'s largest air carrier and forced the layoff of more than 13,000 pilots...
Meanwhile, the machinists' strike prompted other airlines to put on extra flights to accommodate some of the 130,000 passengers carried daily by United. The machinists' pact is supposed to be exempt from the guidelines if it stays within the bounds of the contract that the machinists signed with TWA before the guidelines were announced, which provided an average 12% annual increase in wages and benefits over three years. Citing the ravages of inflation, the machinists at United have twice rejected a package similar to the one granted by TWA. The 18,600 machinists walked out March...
...20th century and a world made new. Because of the general faith in development, the four decades between 1890 and 1930 make up one of the supreme periods in the cultural history of the West-riven, tragic, dissonant, yet as vigorous as the Italian Renaissance: a rewriting of the contract between man and his symbols...
...million over five years. Boston Slugger Jim Rice, the American League's M.V.P. last season, agreed to a seven-year deal said to total $5.4 million and, in the process, earned Carl Yastrzemski an estimated $1.2 million worth of primogeniture for the remaining two years of his contract...
Confidential letters obtained yesterday by The Crimson show that Boston University (B.U.) President John R. Silber hoped to discredit the B.U. faculty union's decision to strike for a new contract...