Word: local
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Administration actually made little effort to enforce the order. Explained a Justice Department official: "We're trying not to rock the boat." Behind the scenes, however, mediators from the Department of Labor were pressuring operators and union representatives to shift the deadlocked national negotiations down to the local level. Both sides reacted angrily to the idea. Said a U.M.W. leader: "We resented it deeply. They were going to destroy national collective bargaining...
...bomber, the President tried more directly last week to convince critics that he is no dove on defense. In a speech at North Carolina's Wake Forest University, Carter warned the Soviet Union against its "ominous inclination to use its military power; to intervene in local conflicts with advisers, with equipment, and with full logistical support and encouragement for mercenaries from other Communist countries...
...paying an increasingly large share of the nation's taxes. According to the Treasury Department, the most affluent households-those with annual earnings of $17,000 or more-received half of the nation's personal income in 1976 but paid 70% of all federal, state and local taxes, up from 68% in 1970. Next year the maximum Social Security tax paid by both employers and employees is scheduled to jump $333, to a total of $1,404 apiece, and will be followed by hefty additional jumps each year, to a total of $3,046 for each...
...cost of settling the walkout. The Administration is considering a series of other measures. Among them: holding pay raises of 1.4 million federal employees and 2 million military personnel to only 5%, rather than the 6% planned in Carter's fiscal 1979 budget; having Carter urge state and local governments to cut sales and property taxes; increasing meat imports to hold back rising prices of food; calling a meeting of top executives of the 50 or so largest U.S. companies at which they would be asked to accept a one-year freeze on their own salaries, which would give...
...life in France), we must blame the predominantly Francophile readings of art history for that. The real map of modernist culture in early 20th century Europe was not that of a capital surrounded by aesthetic provinces. It was more like a confederation: a scatter of nodes and local centers, engaged with one another and enjoying a persistent osmosis of ideas across the frontiers-Moscow, Berlin, Stockholm, Munich. Weimar, Barcelona, Vienna. Paris was uniquely hospitable to the avantgarde. But it had no monopoly on newness. The exhibition of 164 paintings and graphics that opened last week at Chicago's Museum...