Word: homing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mark will rise. In such circumstances the dollar is lost, and attempts to save it will only ruin the nation's industry by making such exports as computers, airplanes and chemicals vastly too expensive in Japan or Germany, and imports like autos far too cheap at home. Former Fed Chairman Arthur Burns told the Belgrade conference that the turmoil in world exchange markets would not end until "reasonably good control over inflationary forces has been achieved, especially...
Managers, secretaries and production workers are painfully aware that when they get a pay raise, the extra dollars that they take home after taxes rarely begin to cover the increased costs they must bear. In the past year, as a result of the ravages of double-digit inflation, real incomes have fallen on average by more than 4%. What is less obvious is that the squeeze on purchasing power has become as much of a problem for employers as for employees...
...living adjustment (COLA) provisions. Workers got an advance on anticipated COLA increases; in the first three months of the first year of the contract, for instance, an extra 200 an hour was tacked onto their paychecks, giving some 75,000 workers an extra $600,000 per week in take-home pay. Conceivably, such COLA advances could become widespread; at present 60% of all unionized workers are employed under contracts that have COLA provisions...
...choice but to blast his way out, killing all his captors-and nearly blowing his mind. It is the most intense and savage narrative that MacDonald has ever written. As for McGee, he recovers in time quite nicely in the arms of an old flame, en route home to Miss Agnes and The Busted Flush...
...Pirates added two more in the seventh. Omar Moreno singled, and seampered to second on an errant pickoff attempt. Moments later, his sprint proved unnecessary when Tim Foli tripled to left-center. Foli then trotted home on a Dave Parker double, for a 4-1 lead...