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...lines and prices decrease ridership on the "T" by more than 10 per cent, the fare hike will automatically be revoked, DiNatale said, adding that preliminary studies of passenger load are being conducted throughout the early fall...
...monthly allotment of 6.6 lbs. per person might be reduced rather than increased as had been expected. Solidarity spokesmen said they would continue to press for an economic reform package that would include subsidies for consumers with lower incomes. Otherwise, warned the union's Warsaw chapter, the price hikes could lead to "an explosion of uncontrolled social protest." It was a threat the government could not take lightly: the issue of food prices, after all, had touched off the July 1980 strikes that in turn led to the birth of Solidarity. The government now says the union will...
...Being a Scout, you finally begin to feel like you're able to stand on your own two feet," he says. "You know how to hike, set up a camp. You get so you understand what self-confidence means. I hadn't been able to talk to adults until I became a Scout. Now I know how to talk at meetings of adults, which is certainly useful for anybody." Especially for young McGagh, since he hopes to be a lawyer...
...starting pay at one of the busy "birdcages" near New York, Chicago and Los Angeles is $37,000). On top of that, Poli wanted a twice-a-year, cost-of-living increase that would be 1½ times the rate of inflation. The FAA offered a $4,000 wage hike, which would have included a $1,700 increase as part of the 4.8% raise given all federal employees this year...
Just before the June 22 deadline, Lewis offered a $40 million package of improvements. It included a 10% pay hike for controllers who also act as instructors, an increase in the pay differential for nighttime work to 20%, from the present 10%, and a guaranteed 30-min. lunch period (controllers often munch sandwiches at their scopes when there is too much traffic for a break). Poli found the package insultingly stingy...