Word: wage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government's wage-price guidelines must change from a generalized yardstick to a specific attack on inflationary sectors of the economy, according to John T. Dunlop. David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy...
...wingers, who are nettled at Wilson's continued firm support for U.S. policy in Viet Nam, Wilson pledged to work toward "a negotiated settlement of the conflict in Viet Nam." But he simultaneously angered Britain's powerful trade unions by promising to introduce legislation that would hold wage increases within certain limits. Government pressure to hold down wages might well bring on a spate of labor strikes...
...Office of Emergency Planning chief. During an earlier term as Governor, Ellington backed Johnson for President at the 1960 Democratic Convention, and the two have often exchanged visits and swapped breeding bulls. In his political views, however, Hooker is closer to Johnson, supports medicare, a Tennessee state minimum wage law and repeal of 14(b)-none of which especially appeal to Ellington. Hooker last week accepted the Tennessee co-chairmanship of the National Lawyers Committee for the President, a group organized to act as liaison between the legal profession and the White House...
...warfare and to provoke debate on the desirability of U.S. stockpiling of chemical weapons. Goldwin and Sidel members of Physicians for Social Responsibility cited a plant in Indiana that had employed 300 workers until 1964 solely for the production of nerve gas as indicative of the U.S. ability to wage gas warfare...
Governor has suddenly become interested in water and air pollution, beautification of the Hudson river valley, and minimum wage legislation, Roosevelt alleged, "Just like he did before the election four years ago." lie has acted only when his political survival is at stake, Roosevelt added...