Word: waged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proved overwhelmingly true of De Gaulle's personal dominance of the state. While De Gaulle was off on a junket to Rumania French students last May burst into insurrection against the retrograde bureaucracy of the universities. The revolt gained ominous momentum when the labor unions, restive at static wages and rising prices, joined the students. It seemed, during those weeks of the barricades, that De Gaulle might be deposed while absent from the country. In settling the insurrection and the general strike, the government had to accept sizable wage increases; all of this had caused panic among the middle...
...part of the curriculum. In Pyongyang's Youth and Student Culture Palace, visitors watched primary-school children firing at wooden targets on which pictures of American soldiers were pasted. At a high school, Japanese newsmen observed an air-raid drill. "You never know when those Americans might wage war on us," said one of the teachers...
Thus, few Britons were surprised when on Budget Day last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins announced higher taxes and other austerity measures. This time, politics impelled Jenkins to go light on wage earners and to hit business heavily. Still, his prescription calls for much the same medicine that has so far proved ineffectual in curing Britain's ailing economy. Somewhat lamely, Jenkins told the House of Commons that the long-promised economic recovery "has been a good deal slower than we had hoped...
...canny determination of the British consumer, who ran up his personal debt and ran down his personal savings to get rid of his money before rising prices and taxes further reduced its value. Consumer spending, instead of declining 1.9% last year as the government had intended, rose by 1.2%. Wages also rose by 7% last year and prices by 6%, despite government efforts to control both. The government undermined its own wage-restraint policies by agreeing to a big raise for workers on the government-owned railways...
...issue that finally may unseat the U.M.W.'s leadership is mine safety. Coal miners, who won an 8%-a-year wage and fringe-benefit increase last October, argue that Boyle should have held out for a vigorous safety program on the part of the mine operators...