Word: payments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, the blame for inefficiency and rising prices does not belong entirely to businessmen. Labor as contributed to excessive costs and inflation by demanding higher wages, opposing automation, and restricting entry by younger workers. Roughly two-thirds of all dockworkers are now over 40. Their whole system of payment is geared to heavy wages for overtime and much lower pay for normal hours. By "welting"--taking shifts at the local pub on company time--workers are able to prolong work until the weekend when they will receive higher rates. Some companies are so "dispirited" by these costly delays, says...
...offering rewards (campaign contributions) in return for support of the leaders' candidates--Stanley Steingut, the anti-Wagner leader in Brooklyn, and Jack Bronston of Queens (both, incidentally from New York City, hardly a major concession to upstate interests). One Manhattan legislator reported being offered a campaign contribution and the payment of a primary fight should he switch his allegiance to Steingut. A New York City reformer shifted his support after an organized series of telephone calls from previous contributors. These calls resulted from the efforts of a former Kennedy campaign aide. According to Mayor Wagner, increased lulus (the legislators' euphemism...
...Your dismissal of the deaths of 358 American men as a "tolerable" cost of the Viet Nam war displays a gross lack of human emotion. The death of each serviceman represents the ultimate tragedy and the payment of an inestimable price...
...West, demands that the deadlock be ended and the Assembly's normal processes resume. In the process they are willing to let Article 19 be bypassed and voting begin, after which Moscow might kick in a "voluntary" contribution with the clear understanding it would not be considered as payment for the "illegal" peace-keeping operations. Moscow generally favors this formula, but has not committed itself as to how much this vague promissory note might...
...Brumidi was paid $8 to $10 a day-the same wage that Congress allotted to the plasterers and stone masons who worked on the Capitol. His average salary, for 25 years of labor, was $3,200 a year. And he took on his last job with no assurance of payment...