Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strike is a culmination of anger and frustration that began building in 1980, when the U.A.W. agreed to concessions that have put Chrysler workers behind the rest of the industry. The Canadians particularly resented the settlement, which the U.S. Government demanded as the price of loan guarantees to the company. The workers now average about $20,000 (Canadian) in annual earnings and want nearly $3 more an hour than their base wage rate of $9.07 to catch up to their counterparts at Ford and GM. Said one embittered striker: "We're losing our homes, and we're losing...
ALFRED.N.Y--The mother of an Alfred University student who died during a fraternity initiation in 1978 recently reached an out of-court settlement with the Fraternity and five of its former members...
...country coroner's report said the student. Charles M. Stenzel, had died of an alcohol overdose. His mother, Erleen Stevens, had sought a total of $64 million in compensation. The settlement was reportedly about...
...university and a faculty member who had been the fraternity's adviser had been named in the original suit but were not involved in the settlement. They had been accused of failing to enforce proper standards of conduct at the off-campus fraternity, a local organization called Klan Alpine, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported this week...
...Cuban Missile Crisis. Day by day, he describes his meetings with Begin and Sadat on the grounds of the presidential retreat: the initial hope, the long period of pessimism, Begin's intransigence, Sadat's frustrated attempt to leave midway through the talks, and the final whirlwind day of settlement...