Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parcel Service workers in the New York City area. The settlement means that UPS's 4,500 drivers and inside workers will earn $7.59 an hour after three years, compared with their current pay of $5.92. They also won a cost-of-living escalator and fringes that will lift their wage-and-benefit package by some...
Producers of other materials, too, are now banding together to try to lift prices. Countries that possess iron ore (including Venezuela and Brazil) and seven bauxite producers (Guinea, Guyana, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Surinam, Australia and Yugoslavia) are talking about forming cartels. Coffee-producing nations hope to control prices by reducing exports from the Central American republics. Oil-rich Venezuela promises to make up their short-term losses in revenues with subsidies from a special investment fund...
...route to Johannesburg shuddered violently, then sank tail first from an altitude of less than 200 ft. Lufthansa reported that for reasons still not clear, the leading-edge wing flaps were not in the extended position after takeoff. Thus, the aircraft did not have enough wing lift to climb...
...mine settlement is certain to lift the price of coal-as well as steel, electricity and myriad consumer products-adding further to oppressive living costs, which are now rising at an annual rate of close to 12%. The pact must still be ratified by the entire membership, a new union procedure that will take between eight and ten days and guarantees that the strike will paralyze the mines for at least three weeks. U.M.W. President Arnold Miller has repeatedly stated that his men will not return to the pits before the voting is completed...
...past, efforts to lift the quarantine had failed because the U.S. had lobbied against allowing the Cubans back into the hemisphere community. This time, the proposal to bring Cuba into the fold collapsed because the U.S. did nothing. Before the meeting began, Under Secretary of State Robert Ingersoll, who headed the U.S. delegation, declared that the U.S. would play a "tactically cool" game and would not try to influence the vote...