Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resources have been harnessed to industry. Formosa today boasts the Orient's second highest standard of living (after Japan), though three-fourths of its national budget goes for defense. Since 1960, more than $42 million in foreign investment has been pumped into the island, whose skilled, low-wage labor force has attracted several dozen U.S. companies from Westinghouse to Winchester. In 1963, for the first time, Formosa had a balance-of-payments surplus...
Prime Minister Joseph Cals and most Parliamentary leaders tentatively agreed to approve the marriage, expected next winter or spring. After all, reasoned Labor Party Leader Gerard Neder-horst, "we also have to think in political terms. There may even be a united Europe some...
Gulp. Intermittently through the next day, Mrs. Schiff and Powers, whom she thinks of as a friend, hashed out their dispute with the help of Labor Mediator Theodore W. Kheel. Powers persisted in his demand for an equal sharing of all wage savings realized by the automation process, while Dolly stubbornly argued that she would not share savings in any year in which the paper failed to make a profit. At length, as the principals wrangled in her East Side Manhattan apartment, Publisher Schiff the astute business woman became Dolly Schiff the wronged woman. "It's obvious," said...
...Johnson had him conspicuously on hand when he signed the excise-tax-cut bill, passed him one of the pens. Next day, Johnson trotted out Martin (along with several Cabinet officers) to give a reassuring reading of the economy at a White House dinner for 50 top businessmen and labor leaders. If Martin's arm had been twisted, he took it without a grimace...
...funds have assets as big as huge companies: the A.T. & T. fund amounts to $4.7 billion, and U.S. Steel, General Motors and Sears, Roebuck each approach $2 billion. The pension funds, into which the employer usually pays all the money, are run by a mixed board of management and labor, which heeds the advice of a bank or a Wall Street investment house...