Word: wage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Days after the tragedy, investigators were still searching through the rubble, looking for clues about how the inferno started. Fire officials labeled the blaze suspicious and raised the possibility that it had been set by disgruntled union members engaged in a bitter wage dispute with the hotel. But the latest evidence, according to Puerto Rico Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, has led investigators to speculate that hotel security guards may have set the fire in an effort to discredit the union. Said Hernandez Colon: "We suspect there may be arson because of the very tense labor situation that existed...
...plan to extend the dinner hour by 15 minutes, if finalized, will not raise the cost of students' board contracts. To cover the additional wage costs, the plan calls for shortening dinner service at the Freshman Union by 15 minutes, closing...
...posture about war, less muscle-bound nations, such as Nicaragua, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, go at the real thing. So fierce are Lebanon's internal wars, one wonders if the country that grew the timber for Solomon's temple will exist in your time. Murderers pretending to be countries wage war continuously in tighter arenas, blowing the limbs off children in railway stations to make their cause appreciated. They are called terrorists, not superpowers, but the power they have, they...
...this attitude that prevented child labor restrictions and minimum wage laws from being established for a long time since they were considered antithetical to the free market. And it is this attitude that still haunts America today, as evident from the fact that the United States lags way behind her Western European counterparts in areas such as childcare reform, as well as in maternity and paternity leave...
...Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Jaruzelski hopes to turn Poland's economy around by adopting the kind of quasi-capitalist reforms that have been introduced in Hungary since 1968. Among them: giving greater responsibility to factory managers, encouraging private enterprise to boost exports and consumer goods and services, creating wage incentives to improve productivity and reforming the tax system to stimulate investment. But the regime faces an uphill struggle. At every level, bureaucrats committed to centralized planning have for too long kept the country locked into a rigid economic system devoted to heavy industrial production at a time when consumers often...