Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The gap still exists. Comparisons between U.S. and European pay scales are difficult because of the varying fringe benefits involved; however, the average Italian auto worker earns about $2.50 an hour, while the average auto assembler in the U.S. makes about $4.40. But the gap is narrowing.
Cornell morning last year brought snow to Cambridge. And while the Harvard band had snowball wars and burned its music in open trans cans for heat, the Cornell band sat in the Stadium playing scales to keep its instruments warm. Halftime came, with more cha-cha dances while the Big...
For years Butcher Jack Savenor of Cambridge, Mass., has counted French Chef Julia Child as one of the steadiest customers at his United Service Supermarket, which is said to offer the best cuts in New England. Whatever the quality of the meat, though, the underground paper Boston After Dark has...
So it is with unrestrained pleasure that Muller-who neither drinks nor smokes but freely uses four-letter words -refers to himself with the radical epithet Pig. Having heard Mayor Daley instruct his police to suppress demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic Convention, Muller even understands why the epithet is slung...
Artful Hurdles. U.S. charges of unfair treatment by the Europeans are far less conclusive. By next January, the Common Market's industrial tariffs will average 8.3%-almost identical to the U.S.'s 8.4%. On the other hand, through a system of "variable taxes," the Common Market restricts imports...