Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to conventional wisdom, James Reston of the New York Times ought to rank high on Spiro Agnew's list of least favorite people. As early as the 1968 campaign, the Times infuriated Agnew by questioning his fitness "to stand one step away from the presidency." Reston, as vice president and chief political columnist of the paper, is a pillar of the Eastern liberal Establishment press that Agnew has been excoriating since 1969; the Times has often replied in stiff editorials. But during his current ordeal, Agnew has turned to Reston for counsel and a sympathetic...
...with the book keeper's. They must set up an executive control group" comprising all officers and employee-directors who earn $30,000 or more a year. Increases for that group as a whole cannot average more than 5.5% a year, regard less of what happens to the rank and file; if the president gives himself a bigger increase, he will have to hold down the raises of his vice presidents. Executive wage hikes will be measured against the average group salary for the previous fiscal year...
...United Auto Workers last week welded together a new three-year work agreement. The two sides shook hands just two days after the union had called a strike, making it one of the shortest nationwide walkouts in U.A.W. history. If, as expected, the deal wins approval in a rank-and-file vote that ends this week, the way will be clear for Chrysler to resume operations almost immediately. U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock scarcely concealed his glee in pronouncing the settlement "precedent setting," an assessment in which most auto chiefs concurred...
...workers were essentially aiming for improved working conditions and fringe benefits. The financial side of the coin was secondary. UAW officials hailed the new contract, tentatively initiated with Chrysler on September 17, as the most far-reaching ever negotiated by the union. But although the union's rank-and-file members ratified the settlement this weekend and returned to their stations on the assembly lines Monday, not all is peaches and cream...
...union. The company is enjoying its most profitable year: second-quarter earnings of $108.6 million surpassed those of the entire first half of 1972. The U.A.W. is also anxious to force Chrysler to modernize some of its obsolescent urban plants, where grim working conditions have caused bitter rank-and-file protests. Beyond that, the company had seemed to be responsive to many union demands. Said Douglas Fraser, chief U.A.W. negotiator at Chrysler: "The company has shown the least knee-jerk reaction to our proposals...