Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that any employer granting wage increases of 1 % or more above certain federal guidelines be forced to pay the same amount in penalty taxes. The guidelines would be reckoned by taking the annual rate of productivity increase in the employer's industry and then adding one-half of the nation's prevailing inflation rate. By that formula, the guideline for overall industrial wages would be about 5% (that is, the rate of productivity increase added to one-half of last year's 6% inflation rate). The plan's authors reason that a hold-down on wages would be the surest...
...shared appointment in which a single faculty slot is filled with a husband-wife duo. In such a case, the couple share the teaching load, salary, and health and retirement benefits normally awarded to one full-time faculty member. There are now some 50 shared appointments across the nation, mostly at small liberal arts colleges that are eager to acquire two part-time teachers, often with two separate areas of specialization, for the price of one. Says Evelyn Pluhar, who shares a philosophy appointment with her husband Werner at Grinnell College in Iowa: "Together we offer a wider variety...
...remarkably high quality of India's first generation of leadership long obscured a simple fact: the nature of that nation's democracy depends largely on what the leadership cares to impose. It has the power to foster democratic institutions; it also has the capacity for tyranny...
Meanwhile, the nation's two major dailies took the dispute to their editorial pages. After a Times editorial accused the Post of "a second-rate burglary of H.R. Haldeman's memoir of a third-rate burglary," the Post in a lead editorial slashed back. Its coup was "first-rate enterprise," wrote the Post, adding rather guardedly that there was no evidence that the book had been obtained by burglary. The editorial pointed out reasonably enough that when a publisher goes into the business of both "news books" and newspapers, "it is almost certain to bump into some...
Julia Moore, who began the tournament seeded fourth, defeated Princeton's number three player, Heidi McGuire in the first round. Moore then fell to Kirk Cameron of Davidson College in the next round, to finish ranked fifth in the nation...