Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to work up a sweat inside the frost-coated chambers of the Norcal vegetable-freezing plant in Watsonville, Calif. Even so, the company's 700 employees are perspiring heavily these days. The workers have stepped up their productivity 10% over the level of two years ago without any major improvement in the food-processing equipment at their disposal. Yet for all their labors, the workers are not getting more pay but less. Last March they accepted wage cuts of 17%, from $7.06 an hour to $5.85 for most packers. They had little choice: the new arrangement saved their jobs...
...work would cost an estimated $80 million and would not be completed until 1990. Schlesinger admitted that it would "require a level of Soviet cooperation that exceeds anything they have heretofore provided." Even so, he suspected cooperation might be forthcoming, given Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's hope for an arms-control pact with the U.S. Said Schlesinger: "They will recognize that the cost of failing to accommodate us . . . will far exceed the gains...
...committee have testified that they got a strong impression North was working more for Casey than for his nominal bosses, McFarlane and his successor as National Security Adviser, John Poindexter. "Covert actions were pretty much left to Casey and ((CIA Deputy Director)) John McMahon, with little if any top-level discussion or review," says one former Administration policymaker. According to this official, even Reagan was cut out of the loop: "The President became less and less involved. Decision making was less systematically fashioned. There was no process to involve him. There was too much informality...
...television address two days later, Chun endorsed the reforms, virtually guaranteeing National Assembly approval of those that require it. "Our politics must now cast aside its old shabby ways, which are incongruous with our level of economic development, and thus achieve an advanced form of democracy that we can proudly show to the world," said Chun. "The general public has an ardent desire to choose the President directly...
...purged nearly 800 people from the agency. Some of them turned up in the Beltway firms. "One result of the purge was that many of the former agents set up private companies that began working for the agency and the Defense Department as independent contractors," says a former high-level intelligence official...