Word: rising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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City Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser said yesterday the increase "is not commensurate with the city's need," adding that she thinks the University's recent acquisition of "non-educational buildings" prompted the rise...
...look very lively, after the Teamsters won wage-and-benefit increases that stand to amount to 31%% over three years. Naturally, the 1.5 million member U.A.W. would like to match the Teamsters' sweet deal. Fraser contends that the President's guidelines restrain wages while allowing prices and profits to rise. Angered by the Government's intervention in the Teamsters' negotiations, he warned against interference by Carter's arbiters during the U.A.W. talks. Said Fraser: "My advice is that they should stay the hell away and let us settle with the auto companies by ourselves. They will not be welcome...
Other problems becloud the generally bright landscape. The Hong Kong dollar has lately slipped 8% against the U.S. dollar because the colony suffered from a $1.8 billion trade deficit last year and is experiencing double-digit inflation, caused largely by an influx of foreign investment and a sharp rise in bank loans for Hong Kong's overheated real estate and property development market...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ Albert Camus, Herbert R. Lottman Confessions of a Conservative, Garry Wills ∙ In Memory Yet Green, Isaac Asimov ∙ The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald ∙ The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris To Build a Castle-My Life as a Dissenter, Vladimir Bukovsky
...match Dylan's record sales, Ochs managed to gain public and critical acceptance beyond the confines of the Village. But somewhere along the line Eliot had to justify his contention that Ochs took the sixties along with him when he went. The last two hundred pages document Ochs' rise to the post of "the Movement's poet revolutionary," and his fall through the long, long Nixon years. The only problem is that his rise was so pitifully short. Ochs had just about three years from his first major benefit at a Berkely anti-war teach...