Word: portioning
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Details of the agreement began to leak out last week prior to ratification by workers and trucking companies. Cost of living increases have been cut from twice a year to once a year. A portion of the workers' inflation adjustment will be used to pay for health and welfare benefits; at present the trucking companies bear the entire cost. The union is also reported to have agreed in some cases to drop an expensive work rule that required longdistance truck drivers to bring freight to terminals for separate delivery by city drivers...
There will, of course, be much more to the speech than that. Reagan will stress one way to advance the "new federalism": turning over to the states a portion of the revenues from increased federal taxes to help them carry on programs for which Washington has reduced funding. The President will also propose further deep slashes in federal social spending, totaling about $31 billion, most of which are already known...
...cigarettes, which currently are $1.66 on a .75-liter bottle of whisky and 8? on a pack of smokes, and a boost in the 4?-per-gal. federal tax on gasoline, perhaps to 9?. Doubling the 2% federal tax on interstate telephone calls might be included as well. A portion of the added revenue, estimated at $9.2 billion, would be turned over to the states, but the size of their share is still uncertain...
...reward is being offered directly by the Websters, although at least a portion of it is reportedly being supplied by George Webster's employer, International Telephone and Telegraph, Inc. (ITT). Webster said Sunday that ITT security personnel were helping him to monitor police progress in the investigation...
Because of the latest design modifications submitted to the historical commission, a small portion of the condominiums originally planned may now have to be dropped. Schmidt said...