Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Standard practice allows the judge to decide what the alimony and child support will be unless, as is often the case, the couple have agreed on a settlement. Generally, alimony will continue until the wife dies or remarries, while the responsibility of child support goes on until the child comes of age. Within these broad limits, however, the judge has enormous discretion. Says William MacFaden, presiding judge of the family courts in Los Angeles County, "Many human factors must be taken into consideration when setting the amount...
...North Vietnam succeeds in this aggression, either through a negotiated settlement or a military victory, they will try the same tactic again...
...have made four major mistakes in the War in Vietnam: 1.) we have grossly failed to use our military power--the policy of gradualism has been a mistake. 2.) We haven't used the diplomatic and economic levers we have with the Soviet Union to try to get a settlement. 3.) Our policy of training South Vietnamese is still failing to bring about the desired results; we aren't operating the pacification program very well. 4.) Our leadership has failed to explain the war to the American people...
...labor are generally against it in the private sector, on the grounds that it undermines the collective-bargaining process. For the public sector, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has suggested what he calls "voluntary arbitration"-the intercession of an informed and mutually acceptable third party to engineer a settlement. One difficulty here is the genuine doubt that representative government, which receives its mandate from the public, can legally bind itself to an outside judgment...
...contract for A.M.C.'s huge Carteret, N.J., smelter, source of 10% of the U.S. domestic supply of refined copper. Terms: a $1.07-an-hour increase in wages, pensions, health and welfare benefits, raising hourly pay to a range of $3.11 to $4.24. It was the second settlement in three weeks. Sixth ranking Copper Range Co., which normally extracts about 6% of the nation's annual output of copper ore from its 2,000-ft.-deep mine in White Pine, Mich., agreed in late January to an aver age wage-fringe boost of 960 an hour over the next...