Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real earnings jumped 12% for a blue-collar federal employee and 6.3% for unionized labor in American industry. Thus the disparity has widened between comparable military and civilian pay. Says Master Sergeant Jessie Snodgrass, who is in charge of a C-141 air transport maintenance crew at Norton Air Force Base: "I am losing two men a month. The pay is unfair. The civilians here are paid $9.30 an hour and do exactly the same job as my men who get about $2.30." Other sample disparities: a mid-career NCO earns about $14,500 annually; if he is a computer...
...only 2.3%. After L.O. mounted a month-long ban on overtime work to pressure employers, S.A.F. responded by locking out 770,000 unionized workers. Meanwhile, after separate public-sector wage negotiations broke down, four other unions mounted "point strikes" of key government-paid employees, which crippled air and ground transport, curtailed hospital services and closed down the state-run television network. Last week the L.O. pulled out truck drivers who deliver 80% of the country's gasoline and heating...
...refiners who use expensive uncontrolled domestic oil. The program, in effect, subsidizes imported oil at a time when official Government policy is to discourage imports. Though North Slope oil is domestic, the cost of building and operating the Alaska pipeline makes the crude relatively expensive to transport, so the Government treated it as something between domestic and foreign...
...three from the Foreign Ministry) and the 90 commandos would all leave in the four choppers. They would join the C-130s, which would have flown from Oman, at yet another airstrip, "Desert Two." There the choppers would be abandoned, and everyone would fly to safety in the transport planes...
...Cuba. Though the attackers had come in buses belonging to the CUBAN INSTITUTE FOR FRIENDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE, there was little doubt about who was behind the assault. "It was clearly permitted, if not sponsored, by the Cuban government," charged Thomas Reston, U.S. State Department spokesman. Though Havana promised safe transport home to the squatters, most decided to remain encamped there...