Word: hr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder many employers look with trepidation on the shortened workweek--though virtually nothing can stop it now. Following the passage of a preliminary law last June, 15,000 companies or sectors voluntarily negotiated 35-hr. accords with workers ahead of a year-end deadline. The second 35-hr. law, due to be voted on next week, gets specific on such matters as overtime, coffee breaks and the status of managers and minimum-wage employees. The latter must be paid 39 hrs.' salary for 35 hrs. of work--equivalent to an 11% raise--with the government making up the difference...
...planning its fifth trek to the geographic North Pole starting in early February with a six-day training session on Baffin Island. In April a party of eight to 15 will fly charter aircraft from Resolute Bay, Nunavut, to within 150 miles of the pole. Then, under a 24-hr. polar sun, in often subzero temperatures, the group will follow Peary's route from 88[degrees] to 90[degrees] north, climbing over walls of ice, crossing expanses of open water on ice blocks bound by ropes, skiing through clouds of drifting snow. Burton Meyer of Downers Grove, Ill., a retired...
...PLAYERS: Andrew Hurling (.384, 5 HR, 51 RBI), John Britwell (4-5, 2.83 ERA, 69 strikeouts...
...PLAYERS: Chelsea Thoke (11-10, 2.31 ERA, 132 strikeouts), Abeles (.411 batting average), Teller (.363 1 HR...
...September, strains voice during 20-hr. flight from New Zealand making many Hurricane Floyd-related calls; later, voice breaks twice during speech...