Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...development last week was an apparent end to the impasse between the railroads and six shopcraft unions. As ordered by a presidential arbitration panel, acting under an extraordinary congressional mandate, the railroads will grant an 11% wage increase over two years to 137,000 workers. The settlement was unexpectedly generous to the unions...
...editor with food for thought and analysis, it must explore many areas of a subject that may never be mentioned on the printed page. Perhaps the most consistent sources for Essay are academics, particularly sociologists and psychologists, and we are deeply indebted to the many who are so generous in sharing their knowledge and views with...
...generous tribute, Robert Lowell called Jarrell "a Wordsworth with the obsessions of Lewis Carroll." He focused his poet's eye on a central moral problem of the age, which might be called the Eichmann syndrome, and expressed it in bitter doggerel...
Faced with sagging profits and mounting costs (Chrysler last week announced that prices for its 1968 cars will rise by an average $125, whatever the outcome of the labor-management battle), the industry did in some ways seem generous. By their own reckoning, the Big Three offered a package that would amount to a 5.2% annual increase in labor costs. Wages would go up by 13? an hour during the first year, by an average of 12? an hour during each of the next two years. For the typical G.M. worker, who earned $7,885 in 1966, this would boost...
...Nicky could have been taken for the twin of his cousin George, Duke of York, who, as heir to the crown of Great Britain, had better luck; he was never worshiped and he died in bed. The young Nicky was fond of uniforms and noisy parades, generous with sapphire bracelets for a ballerina in St. Petersburg. There was nothing to warn him of the gruesome shape of things to come but a swipe on the scalp by a sword-swinging Japanese madman at the end of a leisurely grand tour. Alicky was Princess Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt, favorite granddaughter...