Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were also a number of things going on in Washington that could bost businessmen billions of dollars, but no one knew for sure how many. Carter signed into law a measure increasing the $2.30 an hour minimum wage to $2.65 in 1978 and, by steps, to $3.35 in 1981. Congress wrangled over a Social Security tax increase that by 1982 could be draining a total of $180 billion a year from workers and their employers. The energy program was being debated by a House-Senate conference committee. With hard bargaining on the energy legislation about to begin this week...
...Friday morning, Carter met with Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in the Oval Office for an hour and 25 minutes. They confronted three options: go ahead with the trip, 'cancel it, or postpone it until late December or early January, before Congress reconvenes. They settled on the third option, recognizing that because of the difficulty in lining up so many heads of state, Carter might have to visit the nine nations in two separate journeys...
...remains of an unknown man, stripped naked by brigands of who can say which side. The owner, a Christian, shifts his rake to his left hand and crosses himself with his right. Then he pushes the body to the gutter and covers it with some dusty sacks. Half an hour later a military ambulance removes the body...
...assistant fell into a heroine's role. With Solti bedridden after straining a ligament in his back, Symphony Chorus Director Margaret Hillis, 56, was tapped as a last-minute stand-in to conduct a Manhattan performance of Mahler's difficult Eighth Symphony. Hillis spent an hour with the ailing maestro going over the score, listened to a radio tape of an earlier performance, and with just two days' preparation stepped up to the conductor's podium in Carnegie Hall. "I did my job; I'm surprised it caused such a stir," said Hillis after earning...
...striking employees may set up 24-hour pickets at the university's power plants in an attempt to discourage the delivery of fuel oil to the school, Pudlin said...