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...Gradual wage increases for all employees will be introduced, with the lowest wages being raised first...
...rapidity and scale of this chemical creativity are frightening. Through the ages, most of the earth's varied organisms, from single cells to plants, animals and early humans, usually had ample time to adapt to the pace of natural change. They evolved protective mutations to meet the gradual shifts in the earth's vital balance between acids and alkalines, in the salinity of water, in levels of oxygen in the atmosphere. But man cannot patiently wait through the centuries for his body to develop a genetic defense against these chemicals if, indeed, such a defense is possible...
...return not only because he feels The Herald must play out its role as the last bastion of a free press until another paper joins its ranks, but also because he loves Argentina and believes it can thrive as a modern, stable, pluralistic democracy. "We're on a very gradual curve and no one knows whether you're curving into a totalitarian government or curving out of it," he says, "but I have hope...
...drilling boom in the U.S. is yet another demonstration of an old economic law: when prices rise, producers will attempt to increase their output. In 1978 Congress began phasing out price controls on natural gas, and in 1979 the Government started a gradual decontrol of crude-oil prices. The cost of oil and gas immediately increased, but the initial production results are impressive. U.S. oil output will rise by 2% this year, from 8.5 million bbl. per day to 8.7 million bbl.-marking only the third increase in a decade. The additions to natural-gas reserves grew by 35% last...
When Jimmy Carter first trumpeted his registration plan last winter, he warned of an increasingly aggressive Soviet war machine and a disorganized all-volunteer American counterpart, one incapable of responding efficiently to the Communist threat. Despite this frightening description and the public's gradual shift toward a more bellicose outlook as problems in the Near East continued to smolder, no one was certain that America's youth would cooperate with Carter. The SSS announced its version of the outcome last week: more than 93 per cent of the nearly four million eligible men had registered, and more were expected...