Word: waged
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...other hand, it's a fact that we feel we have a certain right to do that, because nobody is forcing American employers to give Mexican workers a job, and a lot of Mexican immigrants do jobs that Americans would not do, at a lower wage and under conditions that Americans would not accept...
Jaruzelski was expected to name Rakowski's replacement as Prime Minister this week. The government leader's most immediate project will be the lifting of a month-long wage and price freeze and the introduction of free-market prices for foodstuffs, measures that are also expected this week. The price plan, which was drawn up by Rakowski himself, met with strong opposition from the Communist Party, and with some reason. Over the past 20 years, food-price increases have triggered strikes, demonstrations and, in 1980, the formation of Solidarity...
...fighting there is -- and has been for more than five years. The Karakoram fastness of northern Kashmir is an area no men ever inhabited, and only a few had traversed, before Pakistani and Indian troops moved in to wage a bitter conflict, largely out of sight of their own people and the rest of the world. Pakistan and India each deploy several thousand troops in the region. Neither side releases casualty figures, yet hundreds of men have died from combat, weather, altitude and accidents, and thousands have been injured. Says the general commanding the Indian sector: "This is an actual...
Just 36 hours after Menem's address, his administration announced the first steps of "unusually severe, exceptional and emergency" measures designed to break the nation's hyperinflation (114% for June alone) and to restore confidence in its virtually insolvent government. Among them: a 90-day wage- and-price freeze, a 116% devaluation of the austral to 650 vs. the U.S. dollar and an aggressive privatization of most state-run companies. Because the end of many government subsidies will bring unavoidable price increases for some goods and services, all workers will be given a bonus of 8,000 australes...
Under the current police contract, which expires July 31, police officers automatically receive the same benefits the University grants to other hourly-wage employees, including the clerical workers. These benefits--including life insurance. medical insurance and disability insurance--granted to the clerical workers will automatically become a part of the new police contract, Mederos said...