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...United Brotherhood of Teamsters and Local 798 of the Pipeliner's Union. In the pipeline collective bargaining agreements, the unions obtained the high wages and liberal fringe benefits in return for a no-strike clause which they conceded to the oil companies. The unions got this large quid pro quo because companies face a short construction season due to Alaska's severe winters and cannot afford a temporary cessation of construction during the summer months. Delays then would set back the project for an entire year...
...lose; one of each, toss again). As Murdoch is quoted by his biographer, onetime London Journalist Simon Regan: "I love to play it. You bet on a run. You go in with a couple of quid and two, four, eight, you double it all the time. If you're betting on, say, heads, you can make hundreds if you get a run. Then it comes down tails and you're all through. The real game is the gamble on exactly when to stop...
Despite these gloomy omens, the government tried to ramrod through Parliament five controversial bills-among them a measure nationalizing the country's ship and aircraft building industries-that the country's powerful labor unions had demanded as a quid pro quo for voluntarily helping to keep wage increases down. All the bills had been passed once before by the Commons and sent on to the Tory-dominated House of Lords. Unable to throw out the bills, the Lords nonetheless tacked on more than 100 crippling amendments and sent them back to the Commons...
...seemed there would be no fundamental change in West Germany's domestic or foreign policy. Both promised to lower unemployment (current jobless rate: 3.9%), raise pensions, maintain but not significantly expand other social services, crack down on terrorists, pursue detente with East Germany on more of a quid pro quo basis, continue close ties with the U.S., and lobby in other West European capitals for a stronger NATO. Their only substantive difference was over the issue of corporate-tax cuts, which Kohl favored and Schmidt dismissed as "unrealistic and impossible...
Another problem for the S.P.D. is its reputation, mostly undeserved, for being soft on Communism. Though Schmidt is an outspoken antiCommunist, many Germans are dismayed by what they now feel was the excessive willingness of Brandt to normalize relations with the regimes of Eastern Europe without sufficient quid...