Word: wage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress attests to its diminishing influence on Capitol Hill and at the polls. Moreover, for all their outcries, the unions are in the curious position of demanding cooperation from the Administration while giving none in return. Union leaders have coldly and consistently ignored the President's request that wage-price hikes be held to a noninflationary 3.2% a year. In current negotiations alone, the International Association of Ma chinists is asking the nation's major airlines for a 15% increase, Denver ironworkers want 15.7%, Kansas City carpenters are asking 10%, Albuquerque bricklayers want 19%, and Baton Rouge operating...
...Third Reich from Hitler's early rise to the final justice of Niirnberg, at first failing to recognize the true Nazi intent and reporting, one month after the invasion of Poland and seven months before the blitzkrieg through Belgium and The Netherlands, that Germany had "no aim to wage a war of offense," but later scooping fellow newsmen on the Hitler-Eva Braun suicide pact and becoming one of the best spotters of Communist subterfuge during a 20-year stint at the United Nations; of a heart attack...
...bill, it was "the right measure at the right moment," blending "prudence and restraint" at a moment when the economy was bubbling along near capacity levels. Still, he cautioned, "if we allow our economy to run too far, too fast, we can expect demands for additional fiscal, price, wage, tax and expenditure restraints," adding: "I can make no prediction on the need for additional taxes later this year. No one can make that prediction...
...example, as a "pitifully inadequate and misdirected" rearguard action that is bound to fail because it treats the symptoms rather than the causes of distress. Brooke advocates "an all-out, unqualified massive attack on the conditions which doom many Americans." He would increase relief payments, expand unemployment and minimum-wage coverage, "retool our total approach to education," and seriously consider a guaranteed annual wage at Government expense. He would even outdo Lady Bird with a "massive clean-up-and-beautify-America program...
...either because of voter indifference or because of Wilson's refusal to take the bait by arguing back. As a folksy gimmick, Heath reduced his attack on Wilson's economic policies to an arithmetic formula: 9-5-1. The nine stands for Britain's soaring 9% wage increases in the past year despite Labor's pledge to hold down wages. The five stands for the 5% hike in prices in spite of Wilson's pledge to enforce price stability. The one stands for Britain's perilously low 1% increase in productivity in the wake...