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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue was an affirmative-action program, the largest in the nation, that affects 780,000 employees of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. The 1973 plan was negotiated by several federal agencies, including the Labor Department's Contract Compliance Office and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which had charged the phone company with job discrimination. Although it did not admit to that allegation, AT&T agreed to make payments totaling $15 million to compensate 15,000 workers, mostly women, who were said to be victims of past promotion and salary discrimination...
Dozens of local anchors are making more than $100,000 a year, and at least 16 make $200,000 or more (see box). Of course, stratospheric salaries were common at the networks even before Barbara Walters signed her million-dollar contract with ABC two years ago. What is new is that the pearly-toothed, cleft-chinned basso profundos who tell the way it was in your home town are starting to earn network-size salaries. "Only three or four years ago it was significant if an anchor earned $100,000," says Richard Leibner, one of a growing number of talent...
Union members walked off their jobs yesterday in protest of a bill currently in the state House of Representatives that would take out of the Carmen's contracts the guaranteed cost-of-living increases now given at the expiration of each union contract...
...remaining American citizens who has not yet caught Travolta's act, Saturday Night Fever is a better bet than Grease. Apparently, however, Travolta has a three-movie contract with Robert Stigwood, so who knows what will be next...
...cocktail piano" at a dim midtown club. After appearing in a few stock and live television productions, he got a screen test with Director Joshua Logan; another novice movie actor, Jane Fonda, auditioned with Beatty. Nothing came of it, but three months later MGM offered Beatty a five-year contract at $400 a week. He moved to Hollywood and, at 22, sized up the pitfalls of the studio system in record time. Without ever unpacking his bags, he borrowed money to buy his way out of MGM. Back in New York, he landed a supporting role in a William Inge...