Word: higher
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Zorinsky went off to meet a group of 200 Nebraska farmers, who were in Washington with many others to pressure Congress for higher farm prices. Many of them urged him to make a deal: higher prices in exchange for the Panama treaties. Zorinsky balked. Said he: "Once I do that, that will establish what I am, and only leave the price to be negotiated. I don't want to be seen by the White House or anyone else as a Senator who has his price...
...number of modern Palestinians still remain in that territory: 693,000 in the West Bank, 447,000 in Gaza and 574,000 more in Israel proper, where they have become citizens of the Jewish state and a long-range worry to Israeli authorities because their birth rate is much higher than that of the 3.6 million Jews. Many more live in neighboring states such as Jordan and Lebanon, the poorest among them in refugee camps that were first established in the late 1940s. Other Palestinians, many of them well-to-do, are spread from Libya to the Persian Gulf. There...
Local 26, the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union that includes the Harvard dining hall workers, will push for a higher pension, a cost-of-living clause, greater dental coverage, full-time summer jobs and various other benefits next month in preparation for contract negotiations, a union official said yesterday...
Other demands the union will put forward include a disaster clause in the case of another blizzard situation, cash-in of sick leave allowances and a higher uniform cleaning allowance...
...Census Bureau report caused much Congressional concern over the access of middle-income groups to higher education. Increasing college costs seems to be "squeezing out" these groups, since they could neither afford tuition raises, nor qualify for scholarships...