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Once the pact is ratified by union members, it will face one more hurdle: the Pay Board. The agreement's average yearly increment of 23% is four times the board's 5.5% guideline. Union and company bargainers are hopeful, however, that the board will consider the package a "catchup" settlement and allow it to stand. Bridges' men have not negotiated a raise since...
...equal to dissecting an earthworm to look at the parts. Dancing the death of Jocasta is equal to reading Oedipus tell of his mother's death. Filming or dancing these experiences brings the ideas home to the doer: they mean something to him personally since he creates the order. Increment dance and film by one dimension until you reach a peak experience...
...when to study something, i. e., doing research in areas of current concern. But applied anthropology (involving the anthropologist's formal recommendations to the local government) and action anthropology (social action by the people themselves based on the researcher's recommendations) are much more sensitive and complicated fields. Any increment of planned social change exposes countless new unknown factors, and the schedule of well-intentioned reforms often becomes lost in a series of mistakes and corrections...
...feels that 50% of the line should be raised on stilts over the unstable ground. TAPS wants to bury 90% of the line where it will be safe from vandals. Besides, lifting the pipe on stilts costs about 25% to 60% more per mile than burying it?quite an increment on a $1.7 billion job. Details clearly have to be worked out. Ray Morris of the Federal Water Quality Administration describes the first plans that he saw last year: "We reviewed cartoons. That's what they were?cartoons...
...announcement of any kind be made for 100 days, or if that were not possible, for at least another 60 days. Nixon heard the chiefs out at a luncheon meeting in the Pentagon. Then, only a few hours before his telecast, he decided to lump the 50,000 increment and the 100,000 increment together, stretching the deadline from eight months to twelve...