Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard-won fruits of negotiation, and are determined that their 19.4 million members will get the raises-both those that came due during the freeze and those called for after it ends. Management members of the Pay Board started out with a plan that would bar retroactive hikes and limit future increases to an average of 5%. To the surprise of the union men, the public members, instead of acting as mediators, put forth a suggestion almost as tough as management's. Apparently convinced that too much inflation is built into existing contracts, they proposed extending the freeze...
...careful blocking makes every drunken soldier's drunken move part of one grand theatrical effect--and everything meshes neatly behind Cassio's supremely pathetic disclaimers of intoxication. Half the tension of the scene is in the swish of swords and the calculated pounding of boots. Shakespeare played to the limit...
Zero Population Growth campaigns for families to limit offspring to two in an attempt to stabilize the number of earthly inhabitants...
Several construction union leaders have urged AFL-CIO President George Meany to quit President Nixon's 15-man labor-industry-public Pay Board, which Monday ordered a general 5.5 per cent limit on future pay hikes...
...this effort, the skies will not really be friendly for United until there is a general pickup in the economy. So far, passenger traffic is down 4% from 1970, and United may be reaching the limit of the benefits it can get from cost cutting. "You can't save yourself to prosperity," Carlson admits. But he has put the slimmed-down airline in position to earn a solid profit whenever traffic does climb again...