Word: six
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted the increase phased in over three years. But congressional Democrats also gave ground by agreeing to an idea they had fiercely resisted in the past, a so- called training wage for teenage workers. The training wage, which can be paid to a worker only during his first six months on the job, will be $3.23, rising...
...many as six further excerpts are expected to appear in the magazine, covering the founding of L.B.J.'s fortune and his controversial election to the Senate in 1948. Knopf will issue a first printing of 200,000 copies in March...
...Britain's last major independent producer of luxury cars, Jaguar had fought hard to go it alone. The company earned $45 million last year but lost $1.8 million during the first six months of 1989, largely because of slumping U.S. sales. Jaguar tried to fend off Ford's advances by offering General Motors a 30% stake in the British firm. But last week the British government opened the way for Ford by waiving London's legislative right to veto any takeover of Jaguar before 1991. Ford put its offer on the table the next morning. GM officials decided the price...
...outlook is still so new to India that no mainstream leader is quite ready to renounce socialism for the C word. Even Gandhi, who godfathered the middle-class surge, fears the fallout when less fortunate voters go to the polls later this month for parliamentary elections. For the past six months, he has turned his attention to promoting vast poverty relief and local rule schemes. Still, Gandhi's advisers say that if the Prime Minister is returned to power, he will push forward with deregulation and other reforms. If Gandhi is defeated, his successor may have little choice...
...spot in the first period that we were doing really well," Weisbrod said, "but you can't win hockey games only playing for six or seven minutes...