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Despite the basic agreement on wages, the negotiators were unable to settle other critical issues, chiefly whether cost of living increases would be paid annually or semiannually. The truckers had agreed to an annual raise equal to 65% of the rise in the Consumer Price Index. The union wants semi-annual increases, which could add a few percentage points to the overall cost of the contract...
...Arabic into English] as "a state run by the people without a government." We believe if governments disappeared and the peoples of the world governed themselves, peace would prevail. The main elements of our new socialism are the vanishing of wages and rents. Employers would disappear; those who are paid wages should become partners in work...
...recovering from a staph infection, and his gray visage was transmogrified into a haggard, glowering, shifty-eyed mask by the same cameras that broadcast a fresh, vigorous Kennedy. Nixon learned the lesson and in his second race, as Joe McGinniss documents in The Selling of the President, he paid much attention to such minutiae as makeup and stage gestures. Said the candidate to one TV cue man: "Now when you give me the 15-second cue, give it to me right under the camera. So I don't shift my eyes...
...University paid about 68 per cent -or $37.1 million--of its expenses during the period audited with 750 federal grants. Three years ago, the school had to return $132,000 to the National Institute of Health for similar infractions of the complex federal regulations covering federal grant expenditures...
Coach Dave Fish had pulled a surprise move by plugging Chaikovsky in as high as number two, since a serious shoulder injury and a subsequent cortisone shot had prevented him from playing any challenge matches. Fish's strategy, obviously, paid...