Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russian dissident and critic of détente who was expelled from the Soviet Union last December. The President decided that seeing Bukovsky last week would be a bit much; after all, the handsome, dark-haired activist had just gone before a congressional commission to urge the U.S. to wage a cold war against the Soviet Union until it relented on human rights. Bukovsky was rescheduled to call this week. The small White House gesture of delay, in the words of one official, showed a desire "to cool it without backing down...
...some of the other campaign pledges. In spite of his previous opposition to the construction of B-1 bombers, he has yet to announce he will halt the program inherited from Gerald Ford's budget. He has also abandoned the notion, barring a national emergency, of stand-by wage-and-price controls. On other issues, Carter has fudged his position. The vow to cut $5 billion to $7 billion in waste from the defense budget will not be fulfilled until next year at the earliest, he now says, although he appeared to imply during the campaign that he could...
...major topic of conversation at the Bal Harbour meeting was this year's collective-bargaining calendar, which involves 5 million workers in such key industries as steel, aerospace, communications and coal mining. The consensus is that 1977 wage settlements could be hefty-at least as large as last year's average 8.3% increase for the first year of a contract. Moreover, greater emphasis than ever will be placed on job security...
...perennial rite of winter is the annual meeting of the AFL-CIO's executive council in Bal Harbour, Fla., just north of Miami Beach. There, at the garish 15-story Americana Hotel, the heads of 34 AFL-CIO unions representing some 20 million workers-about 21% of U.S. wage earners-gather every February to talk strategy under the sun and in sybaritic splendor. TIME Correspondent Philip Taubman attended this year's eight-day meeting and filed this report...
...point, Meany managed to simultaneously skewer an old adversary from the Ford Administration and a new one in the Carter White House -Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze, who has expressed interest in wage-price restraints. Nodding in the general direction of Washington, Meany cracked, "A fella by the name of Alan Greenspan, he's still over there. But he's changed his name to Charlie Schultze." Meany, for all the talk of his retirement this year, still clearly enjoys his hoots and hurrahs...