Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next day, delegates accepted the twelve-month rule, but at the cost of an ominous amount of internal strife. The opposition to the rule included delegates of the 1.9 million-member Transport and General Workers' Union and the militant 260,000-member National Union of Mineworkers, whose members rejected the recommendations of their leaders. Most of the margin of victory came from the 1.2 million-member Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, many of whose delegates tried in vain to challenge the pro-rule vote reported by President Hugh Scanlon. That move was scotched by Marie Patterson, a member...
...troubles are real and severe. Their profits in the first half dropped 48%, while earnings for all manufacturing industry rose 8%. At U.S. Steel Corp., a 52% plunge in first-half profits has prompted the company to ask 10,000 nonunion and management employees to give up a cost of living raise averaging $19 a month that was due in August. Chairman Edgar Speer also indicated that some operations would be suspended at the company's Youngstown, Ohio, mill, and that construction of a $4.5 billion integrated plant in Conneaut, Ohio, might be postponed. At Bethlehem Steel, where first...
...energy crisis that started with the Arab oil embargo of 1973 caused GM designers to take another look. The diesel gets anywhere from 15% to 25% more miles per gal. than a gasoline-powered engine. Besides that, diesel fuel, which is essentially highly refined fuel oil, can cost as much as 10? per gal. less at the pump than regular gasoline depending on the area of the country. And the diesel engine, which has no spark plugs or distributor points, requires less frequent maintenance and repair...
...final negotiations was surprising, since the U.S. and Canada have engaged in considerable bargaining about the project. More unusual, a relatively small and unknown company beat out the giants of the North American gas industry to win the contract to build and operate the pipeline. The construction cost alone could reach $14 billion. The victor is Northwest Energy Co., a firm based in Salt Lake City, which had sales last year of $626 million, mostly from a pipeline system supplying seven states. Its peppery chairman, John McMillian, a Texas independent oilman, masterminded the struggle. For his bested competitors, including...
...spur to Mackenzie Bay. California did not want the liquefied natural gas tankers from the El Paso project off-loading in its ports. Besides, according to Government projections, the El Paso gas would be costlier to the consumer. Even so, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger estimates that Alcan gas will cost the U.S. consumer about $2.50 per thousand cu. ft., about twice the price of present domestic...