Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million to new civil chaos. While retaining some of his old flair, Perón seemed to lack his old ruthlessness. He hesitated to take strong action against the terror ist leftist guerrillas, whose kidnapings of businessmen had frightened away foreign investors. He wisely imposed a tough "social pact," an agreement between employers and workers that amounted to a wage-price freeze, momentarily reducing inflation from 80% to 30% annually, but then gave in to demands for enormous wage hikes by journalists, the military and the police...
...Vice President, she has presided at Cabinet meetings and sessions of the Argentine Senate, now speaking out boldly instead of whispering shyly as she used to do, thus confusing her early audiences. On the stump to support Perón's "social pact" economic program, she lashed out at black marketeers and hoarders. Last month, with a hairdresser and assistant hairdresser in tow, she made state visits to Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and the Pope...
...want superiority rather than "equivalency" is the history of the separate but analogous negotiations that are now going on in Vienna to reduce conventional forces in Europe (19 countries are participating in these talks on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions or MBFR). In Europe, the Russians and their Warsaw Pact allies have a superiority in conventional forces (850,000, v. 750,000 for NATO), and they give no indication that they are ready to surrender their advantage in a conference room in Vienna. The negotiations are stalemated...
...week some 110,000 strikers in the men's clothing industry went back to work under a contract that will raise their pay about 10% the first year (see following story). Escalator clauses in union contracts are further increasing pay; Eckstein calculates that an escalator in the steel pact will raise wages in that industry 4½% to 5% this year all by itself. Finally, Eckstein believes that many nonunion employers are handing out generous across-the-board wage boosts that they feel they can no longer avoid in a time of double-digit inflation...
...university, said recently, the university has no legal obligation to support Indian students. Steiner also said that under the legal doctrine of laches, a counterpart to the statute of limitations, "it would not be in the public interest, not be in the interest of the law" to uphold the pact...