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Prime Minister Olof Palme says that any wage packet over 7% to 9% would "threaten the economy of the country." Supporting Palme, the government's collective bargaining agency, Avtalsverket, ordered the lockouts in hopes of draining the unions' tills as fast as possible and forcing them back to the bargaining table. Significantly, blue-collar unions have not walked out, though their average annual wage ($4,900) is less than half that of the striking white-collar workers ($10,200). Palme, committed to what he calls "increased equality" in Sweden, has promised legislation that will close the broad...
...fixed price. In between came inflation and shortage of parts and machinery during the Viet Nam buildup of the mid-1960s. The result, says a Lockheed spokesman, was "the emergence of catastrophic risk-risk of a magnitude that could bankrupt defense contractors and their subcontractors, and perhaps even threaten the survival of their creditors...
...University in its role as initial investor, should strive fundamentally for maximum return. Not only would any other policy embark the University on uncharted seas; maximization of return is a matter of sheer necessity in this era of spiraling costs that may threaten the very existence of the private university as we know...
Death is not, of course, a particularly original theme in this genre, but Orton doesn't strive for chills as Pinter did in Accident. Instead, he applies black humor within the blissfully sloppy and easy-going frame of character-types which are so familiar that they never really threaten to be ominous: The Sherlock Holmes sleuth who stalks, magnifying glass in hand, the unctuous undertaker who speaks of "floral tributes," the cool-as-ice nurse who hides a whopping sex drive. With characters such as these, each occupationally linked to death, but in funny, obsessive ways, Orton spins a yarn...
...that we are living in another McCarthy era may be exaggeration. But once again, the government's political opponents are coming in for extraordinarily harsh treatment. Officials in the government are conjuring up plots which they say vitally threaten the national security. And, as in the McCarthy era, there are many willing to accept the argument that the government's "enemies" do not merit the civil liberties traditionally assured to American citizens...