Word: wage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reform an economy; he is trying to discipline a national mentality. For a starter, he eliminated $200 million a year in government wheat, oil and newsprint import subsidies, thus halting a wasteful drain on Brazil's treasury. He then ended labor's inflation-producing 75%-to-100% wage hikes, slowed down the money presses, and began reforming Brazil's sievelike tax system to plug loopholes and improve collections...
...Chicago's Negroes, has antagonized civil rights groups by foot dragging on school integration, housing, welfare and poverty programs. Even last year Percy showed impressive strength in the Negro wards. "It will be an uphill battle all the way," he admits. But, adds Chuck Percy, "If we can wage an effective and good campaign on the right issues, if we can identify the causes of the future and respond to them, then...
...even-tempered mood of the convention, Meany had kind words for the 89th Congress, even though it pointedly failed to give him the three pieces of legislation that labor wants most: repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's right-to-work provision, an increase in the federal minimum wage, and a boost in federal-state unemployment benefits...
Koti's cutting edge would at least reduce the bulk of bank notes Indonesians have had to lug around with them. But far more was needed to revamp the entire price-wage structure and provide incentives to restore production to decaying plantations and mines. Though the peasantry survives happily enough on bananas, breadfruit and barter, few city dwellers today can make ends meet without handouts of rice, free housing and cash from their employers...
Currie proposed government controls to avoid a wage-price spiral. He added that mechanized agriculture, compulsory primary education, national health programs, and public housing projects would insure "additional work and income from hither-to unemployed resources...