Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stockpiles will put pressure on the coal-mine owners, with whom Miller will begin the year's most important contract bargaining by the end of this month. Miller, who ousted the disgraced Tony Boyle in an election in 1972, has never negotiated a contract, and needs a fat pact to solidify his position. Among his desired concessions: a "substantial" wage hike, sick pay and a cost-of-living escalator clause, a pension raise and stricter safety regulations...
...ritual pledges of allegiance to détente in both Moscow and Washington, the Nixon Administration's dealings with Russia face tests in several tricky areas. In Europe there are the plodding negotiations on East-West political relations in Geneva and the talks on NATO-Warsaw Pact force reductions in Vienna. The promised expansion of U.S.-Soviet trade is hung up principally on Senator Henry M. Jackson's opposition to a bill granting the Soviets most-favored-nation trading status. Jackson demands a Kremlin commitment to further increases in emigration of Soviet Jews...
...Gizikis. Under the mounting demands from Makarios, Ioannides finally ordered the coup to take place Monday morning and, as the archbishop had feared, the Greek officers led the national guard against troops loyal to him. Using Soviet T-34 tanks that the archbishop had received from a 1964 aid pact with Russia, the guard attacked strategic locations, including the presidential palace, Nicosia airport and central prison, where hundreds of pro-enosis prisoners were being held...
U.M.W. President Arnold Miller will be negotiating his first contract when the current pact expires Nov. 12, and the pressure is on him to bring a big pay increase...
...June, Harvard wanted to negotiate a two-year contract with the printers, with the University's standard 5.5 per cent wage increase in the first year of the contract and a slightly higher increase in the second year. The printers wanted a one-year pact, with 10 to 14 per cent annual raises, but the union soon started to make a series of major concessions in bargaining sessions. First the GAIU accepted the idea of a two-year agreement and resigned itself to a 5.5 per cent increase in the first year, but asked for a 21.5 per cent increase...