Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frustration over changes in the department to the bargaining table. After 13 long months, they extracted some firm promises from the University's negotiating team. The union's demands went far beyond the purview of most bargaining sessions. The police then focussed not on the perennial demand for cost of living increases and better benefits, but on the methods used to transform the department from a familial friendly cop outfit to a professional crime fighting organization...
...Services (ETS), the nation's largest testing firm, to devote 50 full-time workers "just trying to cope," Mary Churchill, associate director of information for the firm, says that "coping" will probably mean a cutback in the number of tests given in New York, and an increase in the cost of the tests, perhaps for all test-takers, not just New Yorkers...
...covered? We may have to disclose this for everyone applying to a New York state school, and that would make our problems huge. What do we have to send? A xeroxed copy of every test means millions of pieces of paper. How much is it going to cost--these are the things that concern...
...AMOUNT OF FINESSE in style, however, could mask the coarseness and presumption of Chysler's plea. The goal was an unprecedented tax credit, carved out just for Chrysler, that would have let the company count its losses as profits--allowing it to deduct the cost of capital improvements from its federal taxes, something only profitable companies are normally allowed to do. If Chrysler failed to turn a profit again, its losses would become the government's losses, a neat trick by anyone's standards. Chrysler's strategy for achieving this goal was a mixture of guilt-tripping and blackmailing...
...agreement would give the University more than $600,000 in exchange for land easements in the Square and the cost of soundproofing University buildings bordering on Mass...