Word: wage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Service and maintenance workers at Cornell University continue to work without a wage settlement after the university rejected the union's first concession during negotiations on Thursday...
Bargainers for the United Auto Workers (UAW) lowered their demand for a 16 percent increase in the total wage pool to 13 percent, but Cornell administrators are willing to give only an 8 percent increase, said David I. Stewart, assistant to the vice president for university relations...
Davidoff said statistics show that more than 200 Cornell workers receive salaries below the federal poverty level. He added that there is a wage gap of between $4000 and $8000 between the salaries of service and maintenance workers at Cornell and those of workers at such schools as Harvard, Columbia, and the state universities of New York...
...then to wage war? Kill them? No, as I said--that would be playing into their hands. We can't simply ignore them, however, because they would still find it desirable to kill us, and we, as is well known, find death repugnant at best, especially before the television season has formally concluded...
This sort of stuff goes on all the time. There are few really new ideas left. Political speechwriters more than earn their wage if they can come up with genuinely new and elegant formulations of tired old cliches. Ted Sorenson made John Kennedy sound like a Boston Bard by doing just that...