Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growth in the domestic industry has declined from 3% a year to 2%, while wages and benefits have risen from $5.38 to $16.53 for hourly workers, making the 455,000 U.S.W. members among the best-rewarded in the nation. The U.S. industry has paid a high price for its deal with the union five years ago to avoid strikes by submitting disagreements to arbitration...
...deal seemed all set when Treasury Secretary G. William Miller declared early in November that the Administration was, after all, prepared to back a $1.5 billion rescue fund for Chrysler. But now the outlook is a lot less sure. Opposition to Government aid is gaining ground, not only in Congress but also among the company's own bankers...
Vegas 21 is a pocket calculator that will add up your check stubs, or if that seems dreary, deal hands of blackjack. Punch in your stake-why be cheap? Try $50,000-and start betting. The odds, as in real life, favor the house, and two robots in camel's-hair overcoats come around to break your legs...
...added that an exact comparison is impossible because other universities grant credit on a one-for-one basis, while Harvard offers a sophomore standing package deal. Columbia University, for example, will grant a student one credit for each Advanced Placement exam he passes with a score of four or above...
...What they don't learn," Auerbach added, "is how to deal with people. All they do is go to cocktail parties--you'd be amazed at the number of cocktail parties--and how are they going to reach the people...