Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oilworkers' walkout climaxed two months of labor unrest that has spread to nearly every sector of the economy. Demands ranged from pay hikes to compensate for Iran's oil-fueled inflation (officially pegged at 50%) to political reforms, an end to martial law and the release of all remaining political prisoners. Stung by a strike that involved 1 million civil servants and government workers, authorities by and large have acted swiftly to satisfy many of the grievances. Government workers were granted wage increases ranging from 25% to more than 100% as well as such fringe benefits as subsidized...
...problems ahead in persuading intransigent workers to accept the wisdom of his incomes policy. Last week 57,000 assembly-line workers at Ford Motor Co. Ltd., in the seventh week of a strike for higher pay, rejected a company offer of a 16.5% increase. Meanwhile, workers in the public sector, from teachers to trash men, are also pushing for raises of up to 40%. If Callaghan hangs tough and a winter of strikes follows, the result could be stormy for Sunny...
Without question the most-publicized, most expensive and closest of all the county races, the quest for the Democratic nomination for Middlesex County D.A. featured an entrenched 19-year incumbent and an experienced public sector attorney as its main combatants...
...generated optimism among women at the school about their future role in the business community. Herzlinger believes women in business can attain the goals they set for themselves. Women's lower average salaries, she says, are better explained by their choice of lower-paying fields, such as public-sector jobs, than by discrimination by financial institutions...
...saying is that precisely to retain our capacity to choose, and to survive as we wish to survive as a private institution, Yale, and places like Yale, must recognize their natural alliances with other private institutions. Such alliances must spring from a perception that all portions of the private sector--voluntary, corporate, and educational--have a common goal, in a pluralistic society, of providing alternatives to public structures and solutions...