Word: wage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police and prosecutors know that they have no great public mandate to wage a war on cocaine?a war they admit, realistically, they could not win. "They never got rid of pot," says René, 29, a Western publishing executive, "and they won't make a dent in cocaine. There's no stigma." Cocaine retains its less and less valid cachet as the plaything of athletes, entertainers and other starry achievers. Says DEA Agent James Burke of Denver: "The mystique, the myths and the respectability are all working against...
Argentina suffers from 400% inflation, 18% unemployment and a foreign debt of $40 billion. Under these circumstances, the C.G.T. marshaled 95% of the work force to protest a government proposal to freeze prices and wages at 1,000 industrial companies. The union leaders also demanded a 15% wage hike to offset what they called impending "national disintegration...
...graduate of Northwestern University, Portman came to the Kennedy School after a stint in Washington, where he served as a staffer on a Senate subcommittee and on the President's Council for Wage and Price Control...
...very strong labor man, and I strongly believe that if Mondale is elected, the Democrats may be able to embark on a large working-wage program in American," he explained...
...entire Black population is being forcibly removed to the so-called bantustans, barren wastelands which together constitute only 13 percent of the land in South Africa Blacks are only permitted to leave these "native homelands" to work at unskilled factory or mining jobs, at one-tenth the average wage of whites. Blacks must live in single-sex barracks, or in ghetto townships deprived of electricity and running water. All political dissent is punishable by indefinite detainment, life imprisonment, or death...