Word: payments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opponents of overtime are really asking business to eliminate the peaks and valleys of production-something that management would like to do in any case because it would even out costs. But changing the regular payment for overtime from time and a half to double time would cost industry $46 million extra a week, and, with today's rapidly advancing technology, would not automatically lead to more hirings. "In the long run," warns Inland Steel Vice President William Caples, "anything that becomes expensive we eliminate-we engineer it out." The risk is that such penalties might provide the impetus...
...women-has dropped from 80,000 to 64,000, and the decline is continuing, largely because most new apartment buildings dispense with concierges entirely. Yet those who still have jobs cling to them as long as possible because, on retirement, they are entitled to only a minimal social security payment. Touched by the dismal prospect facing aged concierges, Union President Laffon raised money from the government, property owners and insurance companies for a retirement home to open this spring at Lardy, 27 miles from Paris. When completed, it will house 83 persons who can happily spend their declining years refusing...
What is needed, the research report urges, is a new law for direct Government compensation so that disaster victims can get partial payment with emergency speed, with determination of the full amount later. Contractors would still be liable up to a ceiling of perhaps $10 million. Beyond that the Government, ultimate sponsor of the ultrahazardous programs, would...
...Norelco-type shavers or Remington electric can openers. When they actually offer something like an RCA TV set, they never have enough in stock, merely take a customer's deposit and bury him in an avalanche of form letters until he tires of trying to retrieve his payment. Some have offered a come-on of ten boxes of Tide detergent for $1.97; what often arrives is an unknown soap brand and an additional unrequested item with a C.O.D. bill...
Claude L. Weaver '65 and two other students were released from a Jackson, Miss., Juli Saturday upon payment of their three $1000 hall bonds. The three Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers had been held since December 26 on a strong-arm robbery charge, stemming from a dispute ever a cab fare...