Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comprehensive medical insurance plan for faculty members and their families, and the extension of the University Health Service to all faculty members would apply equitably to all groups. They are, therefore, preferably to a straight pay hike. Under the medical insurance plan, a faculty member, if he chose to, could buy insurance against the cost of serious accidents or illnesses at half cost, with the university paying the other half of the premium. The plan would benefit all insurance holders, but it would be most valuable to the hardest pressed faculty member at all levels, the family man. Younger teachers...
Finland was gripped by the first general strike in its 36-year history as a republic. The strike was brought on by 200,000 members of the trade union federation who walked off their jobs, demanding a 6% wage increase to meet a recent hike in dairy prices made by Finland's farmers' marketing organization. As the strike entered its third week, all industry was at a standstill, and strikers were hard pressed for money to feed their families. But there was a remarkable absence of any real violence among the imperturbable Finns. At week...
...objection to a similar study at G.E. Where a union suspects that the time study is being used by management to cut pay or fire workers, the stopwatch will always make trouble. But properly used, the time study is a tool that can not only cut costs and hike production, but boost both workers' wages and company profits...
...government's tightening of consumer credit, including a hike in the minimum down payment on new cars (to 50% of the purchase price), hit the industry where it hurt most-in the domestic market. In the immediate postwar drive for exports, Britain sent a flood of cars abroad. But when the government stopped allocating raw materials on the basis of exports in 1952, British automakers shifted to the easier home mar ket. In 1951 Britain turned out 475,919 cars, exported 366,622, but in 1955, when production had nearly doubled to 897,560, exports increased by only...
...colleges raised their tuition collaterally, part of this problem in selling the best would be eliminated, for many families already regard the Ivy League as the only place their children can get a first rate education. But many others do not, and it seems inevitable that a substantial tuition hike will throw the balance even more heavily in favor of State U. for the student from the provinces, still unconvinced by accolades in Holiday...