Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most significant step toward the council's move came in the three-hour rent control subcommittee hearing immediately before the council meeting. The subcommittee, which includes all nine city councilors as voting members, was unable to reach a consensus on the first five stronger motions, as it split four-to-four, with one councilor absent...
...state of California that the annual loss in crops and machinery is estimated at $30 million. Avocados and artichokes are among the hottest of the hot crops. Observes Gerhardt Clasen, an avocado grower in the town of Fallbrook: "Thieves can strip a tree in half an hour and get $15 for their work." Even more amazing, according to Edward Boutonnet, who is chairman of the California Artichoke Advisory Board, are "the sightseers who stop their cars and pick our artichokes. They're affluent doctors and lawyers and people like that. You confront them when they're stealing...
...year, and that the city's three dailies are fighting harder than ever among themselves for readers and advertisers. Saffir is not cowed by the competition. The morning News (circ. 2 million) and the afternoon Post (circ. 609,000), he says, are the "Chinese restaurants of journalism-an hour after you read them you're still hungry." As for the newly restyled Times (circ. 854,000), Saffir calls it "successful, fat, stuffy" and alleges that the paper has perpetrated a virtual news blackout on the birth of its new morning competitor. Counters Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal...
Yale offered workers in grades one to five a five cents per hour raise for each of three years. Employees in grades six to eleven were offered 15 cents per hour for each of three years while employees in grades 12 to 17 would receive 20 cents per hour for each of three years...
Sirabella said 67 per cent of all union members are in grades one to five. Approximately half of these employees work part-time and all start at a minimum wage of $4.42 an hour, Stevens said...