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Powers said he believes Harvard's contract offer is very generous, because Harvard traditionally pays kitchen workers higher wages than any outside employer...
...Disease Control in Atlanta had to respond to yet another alarm. The mysterious malady had erupted in Manhattan's crowded garment district. There, within a few city blocks, at least 75,000 men and women are jampacked by day, their indoor working conditions made bearable only by generous use of air conditioning...
Descriptions of food, music, sex and the funny remark made around the office water cooler have one thing in common: you really had to be there. Trillin manages to convey his appreciation for what he eats without straining after poetic equivalents of the taste. After a generous helping of crabes farcis, he simply notes that "chefs on Martinique tend to use as stuffing what I suspect a crab would have chosen to stuff himself with if only he had been given the opportunity." He has high praise for the cooking of a Manhattan neighbor and adds: "Alice claims that when...
...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...
...increased tendency of injured parties to sue somebody-anybody-has several roots. One is a heightened public awareness that government agencies, private companies and individuals are vulnerable to lawsuits, and that juries too often are overly generous. The publicity given to big awards awakens greed. Says Colorado State Senator Ray Kogovsek: "People read about these enormous settlements and they think, 'If this person got so much, maybe I have a right to that much too.' " Years of activist consumerism have also made people more alert to possible claims against institutional America. The act of suing, in short...