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...employers' most effective tactic is simply to pay wages and benefits as generous as those a union might win. Union wages generally still exceed those in comparable nonunion jobs?by 16%, at last count in 1975?and are rising faster. But GM, for example, has increased pay in its Southern plants to parity with what U.A.W. members get in the North. Unions, ironically, have been victimized by their own success in making company-paid pensions, medical insurance, longer vacations and similar fringes universal. Even the sons and daughters of diehard unionists feel they have no need to sign a union...
Fittingly, Hua was given a boisterous reception-although one that was carefully gauged not to exceed that given Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev on his last visit to Bucharest. After an open-air limousine ride into the capital amid crowds estimated between 250,000 and 500,000, Hua held private conversations with Ceauşescu, and was expected to visit the oil center of Ploesti, the Black Sea port of Constanta, and the Danube River port of Galati, which is within sneering distance of the Soviet border...
...convicted of sodomy. He was later released from prison-and made headmaster of Westminster. Discipline was ferocious and sometimes fatal. An 18th century legal tract noted: "Where a schoolmaster, in correcting his scholar, happens to occasion his death, if in such correction he is so barbarous as to exceed all bounds of moderation, he is at least guilty of manslaughter." Dr. John Keate, a notorious Eton headmaster from 1809 to 1834, once publicly flogged 100 students in a single afternoon...
...once made the desert bloom through honeybee-like enterprise, so have they made their church into the biggest, richest, strongest faith ever born on U.S. soil. It has grown fourfold since World War II to 4 million members, including 1 million outside the U.S. Church income is rumored to exceed $1 billion a year, though Kimball insists it is "much less than that...
...reasons related to conditions in their own countries and U.S. policy, the influx of immigrants bearing gifts has swelled substantially in the past five years. Many would-be Americans who get through the golden door today bring gold or its equivalent in education, talent, ingenuity and ambition. They exceed in relative numbers and potential cultural impact any similar earlier waves of newcomers. These are not the swinging superrich, who have always been free to flit from clime to clime. Nor are they the winging investors who see unsurpassed opportunity for profit here, or at least a safe haven for capital...