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...Good Life" [Feb. 2]: I wish you had asked me directly for my projections to the present period of the income levels required for each of the categories uncovered in my research. Most of the income levels you cited exceed my figures...
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TRUCKING. The Teamsters' last contract contained a cost of living adjustment (COLA) provision, but it had a "cap"-the adjustment could not exceed 110 an hour in any year. Now, Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons is demanding that the cap be removed. In addition, he opened negotiations last month asking for a $2.50-an-hour increase, spread over three years, in the truckers' minimum wage, which currently averages $7.11 nationwide. Chicago Teamster officials, who in the past have forced the national leadership to tear up newly negotiated contracts and bargain for higher terms, have indicated that this year they...
More bad news is ahead. The authoritative Aerospace Industries Association predicts that commercial-transport sales this year will not exceed 215 planes. That means still fewer jobs in an industry whose direct employment had already fallen from 973,000 people in 1974 to 921,000 last year. The expected total next December: 903,000. When subcontractors' layoffs and the ripple effect on housing and other industries in plant towns are added in, the sag in the airplane industry might well be a drag on the nation's economic recovery...
...Austrians will be banking on victory from their skiing heroes, and Russians will be cheering on their countrymen. But despite the rivalries and loyalties, the news from Innsbruck will boil down to something as old and transcendent as the idea of the Olympics-the lonely, private, consummate effort to exceed in the human arena, and in competition where the drama and grace of the match surpass all else...