Word: wage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lasted only 20 months in 1935-36-and that was his second fling at the job. Even the demonic Gustav Mahler, who gave the house a decade of discipline and creativity from 1897 to 1907, left with his health broken by the fierce battles he had been forced to wage...
...they ran up a hefty $7.5 billion trade deficit. Says Finance Chairman Robert C. Tyson of U.S. Steel Corp.: "America generally has become less competitive than it was. Companies of other nations, frequently with American-aided modern capacity, often with government subsidy and protection, and universally with lower wage rates, can now effectively compete with American companies...
Diminished by Self-Discipline. Although industry is far from blameless, many of the nation's gravest trade ailments have been concocted in Washington. The trouble consists of federal deficits, easy tolerance of wage increases that outstrip rising productivity, and the pursuit of economic growth at the expense of stable prices. Even so, the U.S. still has the world's largest and most efficient economy, along with an impressive lead in finance, marketing and much technology. If the nation has the self-discipline to bring its inflation-bent economy under control, the worst of its difficulties with foreign competition...
...negotiator reported proudly to Beirne. On his telephone for more long-distance calls, Beirne was able without delay to alert 19 other strike teams and tell them that the "pattern" negotiations between the C.W.A. and A.T. & T.'s subsidiary, Western Electric, had concluded with an average annual 6.5% wage and benefits increase over three years...
...white task force--took him by surprise, and the intensity of the hostility left the Ed School stunned. Eventually, community leaders walked out, telling the panelist that if Harvard professionals wanted to talk with the community, they'd have to pay for it--an hourly consultation wage...