Word: lifts
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...announced that he would support an increase in the minimum wage from the current $2.30 to $2.65. effective next Jan. 1. The proposal, made by the House Education and Labor Committee, would tack an automatic escalator clause onto the minimum wage law for the first time. It would gradually lift the minimum wage to 53% of the average straight-time earnings of manufacturing workers by Jan. 1. 1980-or to an estimated $3.15 an hour. This represents a considerable Carter compromise. Originally, the White House proposed an initial increase to $2.50 an hour, with future increases pegged...
...worth of repairs. Most alarming is the condition of one of her antique hydraulic elevators that take visitors from the second to the third observation platform. The newsmagazine L 'Express quoted from a confidential 1970 report by the tower's chief engineer, who had warned of the lift's "serious fatigue." A cylinder might burst, he contended, causing the cage to make "a rapid and uncontrollable descent" with its 80-passenger load. The elevator has not yet been fully repaired...
...success is that they are generally small compacts, lean on fuel and relatively comfortable to drive. One senior Detroit auto executive wondered last week "how the foreigners can produce that much value for the money." Some industry analysts think that foreign-car sales, growing for months, were given a lift by President Carter's energy message in late April, which stressed the need for more fuel-efficient autos...
HORIZON (circ. 98,000; single copy, $2.50) has been around since 1958, but underwent such a face lift this year that any resemblance to the old, hardcover, quarterly coffee-table sampler of art and high culture is coincidental. The new Horizon will be a soft-cover monthly as of September, and light-years more lively. Artist Andrew Wyeth's naked Virgin was the cover of the May issue, and Dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov and Christine Sarry are whooping it up on the next issue. Inside the magazine are heavily illustrated essays on such trendy topics as discothèques, women...
Sternest Test. The Ecuadorians argued that the U.S. should lift its ban on their attempted purchase of Israeli-made Kfir jets, which are equipped with General Electric engines. The First Lady explained that the Administration had stopped the sale because it did not want to be responsible for introducing such sophisticated weaponry into the area. In reply, the Ecuadorians argued that they needed the jets because neigh boring Peru, their old enemy, already had sophisticated equipment...