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...industry's simultaneous rush to expand production has increased the need for miners so that for the first time in over a decade the large coal companies have begun hiring new workers. Miller intends to use the union's resulting leverage over management to obtain such benefits as paid sick leave and a cost of living escalator clause that have become standard in the contracts of many manufacturing industries...
Lucero said she hopes to use the new office facilities to contact a number of state school superintendents to obtain figures on schools' ethnic composition. With this information she will seek permanent local contacts who would encourage Chicano students to apply to Harvard, she said...
...Labour government will be faced, sooner or later, with the inability of British industry to obtain international credit. The unions expect that the government will then be forced--at bargain prices--to nationalize almost all of British industry. Once industry is in the hands of the state, the power of the old upper and middle classes to oppose efforts to redistribute wealth will be broken...
...will be reached, the unions know, if a Conservative government is elected. Then the scenario will go as follows. Conservative wage controls will be resisted by crippling strikes that will further weaken British industry. A Conservative government will find it much easier than a Labour one, of course, to obtain mountains of foreign credits, but the indulgence of foreign bankers will run out eventually. In order to reduce costs some companies will attempt to lay off workers; meanwhile, other firms will go bust under the impact of tactical strikes and the slump. Nationalization of both kinds of companies will...
...guard from 190 to 120 and added potted orange trees in the courtyard. Instead of the usual beribboned official portrait, he settled for a simple pose in a business suit. More substantially, Giscard has lowered the voting age to 18, liberalized the sale of contraceptives, made divorce easier to obtain, ended police wiretaps, and initiated prison reforms...