Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter-Torrijos understanding also cleared up another controversial point. The treaty gives both nations the right to send its warships through the canal "expeditiously." But how expeditiously? Panamanian officials, under fire from the left, insisted that U.S. vessels would be granted no special treatment. A number of U.S. Senators found that position unacceptable. The new statement specifies that warships of either country would be entitled to "expedited treatment" and, during emergencies, could go to "the head of the line of vessels...
Nonetheless, there is an economic grand design of sorts. It proceeds from the assumption that the economy is in a delicate balance between inflation and unemployment, and so needs gentle treatment. The idea is to feed in just enough stimulus to maintain moderate growth, without accelerating inflation-at the price of a very gradual decline in unemployment. Says one White House adviser: "That's the hardest thing in the world-not to yank the economy around. It doesn't give anybody very clear signals," expansionary or deflationary. It also is not a very inspiring vision for the country...
...does not have to pay its workers the minimum wage if it has annual sales of less than $250,000; by the end of 1981, the limit will be $362,500. Though these small shop workers are not covered by the law, the new legislation would require more liberal treatment of workers who receive tips, like waiters, who now can be paid only 50% of the minimum wage. Under the bill, employers would have to pay tipped employees at least 55% of the minimum wage...
...Project, which was organized last year and has already expanded into 15 chapters in California, Oregon and Washington. The fledgling N.S.P. regards the nation's 2.6 million stutterers as another oppressed minority and hopes to weld them into a potent lobbying group. "We don't want special treatment, we just want neutrality," says Goldman. "This is what blacks and women have been insisting on, and we want...
Thomas apparently lived in the classic certitude that personal charm and poetic gifts entitled him to special treatment. "There is no necessity for the artist to do anything. There is no necessity. He is a law unto himself, and his greatness or smallness rises or falls by that," he wrote to his girl friend Pamela Hansford Johnson. Pamela went on to write successful novels and marry C.P. Snow. Thomas went on to craft melodic verse and marry Caitlin Macnamara, a former playmate of Augustus John's. She was, said a London acquaintance, "like the figurehead of a ship...