Word: planned
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Will the world be ready and able to bear the burden of allowing the Cambodians to perish? In this day and age, when there is so much talk about planning for a future, don't you think that we should plan for the Cambodians' future too? Kathryn G. Banks Baltimore
Gueiler is trying a more workable approach. Last week she announced a package of tough new policies. Among them: a stiff hike in the price of gasoline and other fuels and a 25% peso devaluation. But her tough new plan provoked a warning from the heads of the powerful Central Labor Federation, which had sponsored a general strike that helped propel Natusch from office. Workers, declared Federation Leader Juan Lechin Oquendo, "will not accept economic measures that affect their income." If Gueiler's new proposals are carried out, he threatened, his followers were ready to "struggle in the streets...
...cart when it voted 10 to 5 not to approve the Administration's bill. That would have given $1.5 billion of federal loan guarantees, if the company managed to raise a similar amount of nonguaranteed loans. Both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans on the committee concluded that this plan was too soft and generous; it did not ask for any specific financial sacrifice from workers, dealers, suppliers, shareholders and bankers...
...committee instead wrote and approved a much tougher bill. It offers Chrysler federal guarantees of $1.25 billion and demands, as a firm precondition, major concessions from all who stand to benefit from the company. It also seeks the creation of an employee stock ownership plan, which some Senators are promoting as a way to give workers a stake in their firms and share in profit growth. But, following Inflation Fighter Alfred Kahn's earlier attack on the "outrageous" United Auto Workers' wage settlement with Chrysler, the committee's most contentious call was for a three-year wage...
Peter Dykstra, Greenpeace spokesman, said yesterday the offshore drilling is unnecessary and hazardous because the estaimted amount of oil in George's Bank is low and because there are no environmental safeguards in the proposed plan...