Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LABOR. The Democrats pledge "a job, and a fair wage for doing it" for every person willing and able to work; "another job" for those displaced by technology; increased coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act; increased minimum wage and greater coverage; increased overtime pay; expanded manpower training and retraining programs; efforts to repeal state right-to-work laws; an end to "the present, inequitable restrictions on the right to organize and to strike and picket peaceably." The G.O.P. platform promised "restoration of collective bargaining responsibility to labor and management"; less intervention by third parties-presumably Federal Government officials...
...demonstrate his power to the government of President Arturo Illia, Vandor demanded a freeze on basic commodity prices, a hike in retirement benefits, and a $100 minimum monthly salary. When the government stalled, some 2,000,000 workers "occupied" 10,000 Argentine factories between May and June, for anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. When it was over, the government met almost every demand...
Ricksha Opulence. The prices were something else to talk about: $28 a day for a cramped hotel room overlooking a garage, sans television, radio, air conditioning or carpet; $8 minimum per person in nightclubs with two-bit floor shows. Atlantic Citians, for their part, complained just as bitterly that the delegates were small tippers, slow spenders and big gripers. They had some reason to complain. Atlantic City had paid the Democratic Party $625,000 to hold its hoedown there...
...tighter-than-skin pants gyrate to the hot blasts and calypso beat of bongo drums and steel bands. There is no place to dance, but the itchy-footed shake or shuffle outside on the sidewalk. It's better not to mention the food, but there is a $3 minimum after...
...transatlantic boatel with a capacity of 240 cars and 1,000 passengers, which the company hopes will be making five-day runs between Europe and the U.S. by 1967-at a basic round-trip fare of $225, including car and berth but not food. Minimum in-season price on a regular ship with...