Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yerushalmi said a negotiated settlement is now "vastly more difficult" because the Israelis will hesitate to negotiate with Arafat over West Jordan...
...opposition to a political settlement...
...would seriously worsen the gathering recession. For a while, a strike had seemed almost inevitable. But late last week the outlook brightened a bit, and the chance improved for the nation to avoid a long, damaging coal strike after all-though at the heavy price of a settlement that will add to inflationary pressures...
...increase in pensions, which now provide retired miners with a maximum of $150 a month (v. $625 for auto workers), plus a cost-of-living escalator. All that in addition to a basic wage increase at least as fat as the one in steel. A steel-type settlement would theoretically raise the average hourly wage in the mines by 20% in the first year, to $7.40; that would put the miners ahead of both the steelworkers (average hourly wage: $7.13) and the auto workers ($5.63). The miners argue that their pay has risen much less than the price of coal...
...about. No wonder our author feels out of place in Vienna and slowly molds it back into the London of the canon. He homes in on squalid quarters and warehouses by the river and at last even transforms Freud's apartment at Bergasse 19 from a sedate and bookish settlement into the familiar malodorous and cluttered Holmes thinktank...