Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shaking Hands. Many of the machines promise to pay for themselves in labor-cost savings in as little as two years. For some applications, it is more economical to rent. One Unimation rent-a-robot plan costs the user $2.70 per hour for the first 500 hours and $1.70 thereafter. Moreover, notes Company Vice Chairman Norman I. Schafler, the tireless robots "take no lunches or coffee breaks and do not care about working more than one shift...
...tariff barriers came down, so did the price that Canadians had to pay for imported autos. At the same time, because of the proximity of their Canadian plants to key American markets, automakers have been encouraged by the free-trade arrangement to expand their production north of the border. For Canada, the payoff is an expanding auto industry, new assembly jobs for its workers and, as a result of growing auto exports, a decrease in the size of its trade deficit with...
Studying cash salaries and bonuses paid in Britain and five of the Common Market nations, the U.S. management-consultant firm of Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby found that, over the past eight years, British executives have slipped from fifth to last place in the pay scale. French and Italian executives now rank at the top, ahead of Germans (who were No. 1 in 1960), Belgians and the Dutch, who happily yielded the cellar to the British...
...things are going, the British executive is likely to fall farther behind. It has been calculated that he must double his pay every eight years just to keep up with inflation...
...mudder sleeps in pay toilets," grouses a guttural voice. The place could be nowhere but Manhattan, where a bunch of grass-puffing adult dropouts 'ive in communal squalor. But when a toucan with an exotic virus wings in he window, everyone suddenly breaks out in smiles...