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...winners of the strike -- if it can be said to have winners -- were the 2.3 million members of the Public Services and Transport Workers' union, one of 16 giant labor combines that encompass most of western Germany's work force. The 5.4% wage hike they squeezed out of the government is, ironically, precisely the amount accepted by the union and rejected by the government when an arbitrator recommended it well before the strike began on April 27. The union's chief weapon was its shrewd, tough-talking president, Monika Wulf- Mathies, who brilliantly calibrated the walkouts to demonstrate the union...
...believe that Old Joe has to take a hike," she said, "not the only for the kids of today but for the kids of tomorrow...
Total costs for tuition, room, board and health fees will rise from $22,080 to $23,514, officials said. The increase is smaller than last year's hike of 6.3 percent...
Harvard's all-inclusive tuition adjustment is comparable with that of other Ivy League schools, slightly greater than Princeton's of 6.3 percent, but less than Yale's of 6.7 percent. Columbia is offering the smallest hike, of 4 percent, but its annual costs remain the highest of the Ivys...
ENERGY. Tsongas has taken heat from Clinton's ads for proposing a gasoline-tax increase -- even though Clinton himself supported a 5 cents-per-gal. hike in the Arkansas gas tax last year. Despite his opponent's attacks, Tsongas' higher gasoline tax would help curb America's energy use and would provide funds for mass transit and rebuilding roads and bridges and would reduce the budget deficit. Siegel calls the proposal "a very brave position...