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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trustees have delayed ratification of the three-year contract, pending clarification of sections they have called ambiguous. The faculty and the university negotiators have already ratified the contract...
These sections include the date on which the contract goes into effect and expires, the extent of the college deans' authority, the method of determining salary increases and a no-strike clause...
...whether cost of living increases would be paid annually or semiannually. The truckers had agreed to an annual raise equal to 65% of the rise in the Consumer Price Index. The union wants semi-annual increases, which could add a few percentage points to the overall cost of the contract...
...exhaustively behind the scenes for a moderate settlement, and made a compromise in the middle of last week. Reversing an earlier ruling, a top-level strategy group said that 21? of a 58?-an-hour cost of living increase due to the union on April 1 under the expiring contract should not be counted in the cost of a new settlement. That was expected to clinch the deal. But after the talks broke down, Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons made it clear that the Administration's efforts to impose its guidelines had been a key factor in the decision...
...personnel) at 65, the same policy that led six years ago to the reluctant departure of Frank Stanton, the network's longtime president. (The only exception: CBS Godfather William Paley, who continues at 77 as chairman of the company he founded.) Like Stanton, Salant was offered a consulting contract, but he preferred a full-time job instead. Said Walter Cronkite, 62: "It's a darn shame that our policy doesn't permit us to keep...