Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Union President Frank Fitzsimmons, who dearly wants to be re-elected in June, had been pushed by the rank-and-file to hold out for stiff terms. Under the last contract, the Teamsters received a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) that was "capped" at a maximum of 11? per hour in any year. That limitation, the union reckoned, cost its members a total of 53? in their hourly wages, which averaged $7.18 to $7.33 when the contract ran out. Hence among the union's final demands in last week's bargaining was an uncapped COLA clause under which...
...series, a supersophisticated elaboration of the Ektaprint 100 machine first marketed last fall. At the touch of a few buttons, the most expensive machine in Kodak's new line arranges multipage documents and copies, collates and staples them-all at the rate of 4,200 pages per hour...
Averaging 85.5 m.p.h. over the 162-mile marathon, Regazzoni won last week's West Coast Grand Prix. But the 72,000 spectators who paid from $12 for a bleacher seat to $1,000 for a hotel balcony view enjoyed more than just a road race. The two-hour Grand Prix was the climax of a three-day combustible fiesta, and TIME Correspondent David DeVoss was among the participants. Explained former Maserati Racer Carroll Shelby as he blissfully sniffed a passing cloud of hydrocarbon: "This is a spectacle...
...poorly -over a decade ago at The Deutsche Oper in West Berlin. Among those in the audience, however, was Caldwell, and ever since she has been patiently trying to get the money together to stage the opera in Boston. Montezuma is indisputably twelve-tone music's finest hour on the operatic stage. Whether it finds its way into the standard repertory or, like Berg's Wozzeck (which it rivals), stays on the fringes, is something only the years can determine. For now it is enough that Montezuma is a work that imbues the mind with searing resonances...
...tenacious display of depth and concentration, netwoman Rita Funaro, usually quick to dispose of her opponent, took three sets and an hour and a half to beat Liz Manning...