Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...food service workers' three-year-contract with the University will expire June 19. The union has asked Harvard for a dollar-an-hour, across-the-board wage hike and free medical insurance for workers. Local 26 has introduced a set of "worker dignity" proposals such as a ban on possible subcontracting of food services...
...Reagan was careful to balance his talk of military needs in Central America with an awareness of the political, economic and social problems that must be solved. "Seventy-seven cents out of every dollar we will spend in the area this year goes for food, fertilizers and other essentials for economic growth," he said. "We will support dialogue and negotiations both among the countries of the region and within each country...
European complaints about the management of the U.S. economy focused on the large U.S. budget deficits that are keeping real interest rates high. West Germany's Steger summed up the European case by warning, "As long as you stick to this policy of high deficits, an overvalued dollar, capital sunk in for the health of the New York stock market but not industry, then there will be pressure for protectionism." U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, a Republican from Maryland, also took the lead in voicing concern over protectionism, referring specifically to rising U.S. public pressures for import restrictions. "Protectionism...
...food service workers union has asked the University for an across-the-board dollar-on-hour wage hike and free medical insurance, as well as seniority-based promotions and a ban on subcontracting food service operations to outside catering agencies. The University has not yet released its proposals for contract changes...
...touch of class to the dreary Chicago election, and any one of them would make a better mayor than incumbent White, who has had several sides indicted on corruption charges and has himself been linked to such high-level scandals as selling a Beacon Hill town house for a dollar. But wholesomeness doesn't equal victory, especially in a town that is rather blase by now about corruption...