Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided to abandon all constructive suggestion and concentrate on criticism. In Hammersmith, all the fine new Tory "charters" painstakingly formulated over the last year and a half were tacitly shelved while Tory spokesmen heaped invective on Labor's extravagance, the food shortage, the housing shortage and the high cost of living. At Labor rallies, Tory hecklers shouted "onions, snoek and eggs"-all painful items in rationed Britain. But many a Hammersmith voter could recall days when there was food aplenty and no money...
...years ago, before anyone foresaw the heights inflation would reach, the government signed a contract with the All India Railwaymen's Federation. It included a cost-of-living allowance pegged to rising prices. The government argued later that it could not keep the contract without contributing to the disastrous price spiral. The railway federation, dominated by Jai Prakash Narain's Socialist Party, screamed that it had been betrayed. In December its 350,000 members voted to strike on March...
With prospects of a settlement dimmer than ever, other big unions talked of joining the printers' protest. Their common complaint: Peronista union bosses refused to negotiate for the raises which rank & filers thought they needed to meet the rising cost of living...
...Lake Tana on the Blue Nile's headwaters will deepen the lake by about 13 feet, and allow it to hold in reserve for the dry season some 1,400 billion gallons of water. With necessary roads, power plants, etc. in wild Ethiopia, this dam is expected to cost $28 million...
...were now adopted, the Dining Hall management calculates that 55 percent of Dining Hall patrons would still sign up for the full 21 meal contract even though its price would then be $14. Some 35 percent of College diners would sign up for the 14 meal per week contract costing $12, and ten percent would contract to eat only seven Dining Hall meals per week at a cost...