Word: sweetening
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...union busting, and Bennett has been having more than a spot of trouble with the workers at his Indiana auto-body plant. workers at his Indiana auto-body plant. The two sides make a business agreement, and the head crook generously gives his moll Clara to Bennett to sweeten the bargain...
...over the American decision to abstain on the U.N. vote rather than cast its veto. Ignoring the provocative nature of the Knesset vote that had led to the U.N. action, Prime Minister Menachem Begin blasted the U.S. decision as "amazing!" Nor was he in any mood to try to sweeten the atmosphere by making some concession that might get the stalled Palestinian autonomy talks under way again. On the contrary, in yet another action certain to arouse Arab ire, Israel last week announced that it would proceed with the building of six more Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank...
...sweeten the possibly bitter summit, Carter made a two-day stopover in Rome on the way to Venice and planned three days of sightseeing, fence mending and felicities afterward. The first stop: Yugoslavia, where he would try to make amends for his much criticized decision not to attend President Josip Broz Tito's funeral last month. Next: Spain and Portugal, as a way of celebrating their evolution from dictatorships to democracies...
...traditionally a bad meet for Harvard, coming as they do smack in the middle of reading period, and, to add more excuses, the 85-degree heat and punishing track surface didn't help matters. However, the thinclads did turn in some fine performances,including several personal bests, to sweeten the return trip back to Cambridge, where the world of the deadline takes precedence over the world of the finish line...
...past, employers have sought to sweeten compensation by increasing the generally nontaxable benefits, such as health and education programs, and even company-paid memberships in fitness programs. Between 1967 and 1977 corporations raised the dollar value of these benefits at an average annual rate of 17%; over the same period, cash wages and salaries went up only 10% a year. Boosting benefits is much more difficult now; they are included in the guidelines calculations and are becoming costlier to provide, especially in the case of medical insurance plans. Last year such benefits rose by only 9.5%, and almost...