Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have preferred a third year of voluntary wage restraints in accordance with the government's incomes policy (TIME, July 18). The effect of the T.U.C. vote, even though it set no limits on the size of wage hikes unions might demand, is to put off most new contract negotiations to 1978-thereby buying a little time for the Labor-led coalition government in its battle against inflation...
...were fully prepared to flout the twelve-month rule; Arthur Scargill, Communist leader of the Yorkshire miners, said, "This decision makes no difference to the miners' wage claim." They want a pay increase on Nov. 1, rather than in March, which would be twelve months after their last contract negotiation. A midwinter miners' strike remains a possibility. Privately, both union leaders and employers are predicting that the next round of settlements will fall in the 15% to 17% range-far higher than the 10% sought by Callaghan and Healey. Observed Clive Jenkins, general secretary of the white-collar...
Most recently, Ethiopia broke off a major, multi-million dollar HIID contract in 1975, during the leftward shift of the Ethiopian government that followed the deposition of Emperor Haile Selassie...
...several instances, Harvard development teams have parted on less than amicable terms with host countries. After Colonel Acheampong's military takeover in 1972, the government of Ghana asked Harvard to pack its bags. And when a military junta took over in Greece in 1967. Harvard terminated a contract with the Greek government...
...recently concluded institute contract calls for the development of educational, agricultural and health resources in an isolated pocket of North Sudan. The Abyie district along the North-South Sudan border is 80 miles from the nearest railhead; during the five-month long rainy season, there are no passable roads out of the area. The native black African population, which opted to stick with the Moslem, Arabic north after the Sudanese civil war ended in 1970, survives through subsistence sorghum farming and livestock raising. HIID anthropologist David Sharry has begun the advance work for this project, out of communication with HIID...