Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communists in the Miller administration. Miller, 53, who has lungs ravaged by black-lung disease and a face scarred from World War II wounds, insists that he delivered on U.M.W. democracy with a new union constitution, rank-and-file veto power over contracts and a fat, three-year 54% wage-and-benefit increase negotiated in the last contract...
...winner's first job will be to negotiate a new contract with the coal industry. The present one expires in December, and no one is sanguine about the prospects for a peaceful settlement. Campaign rhetoric will inflate demands in a union already talking up a 25% wage increase for the first year alone. "We've never gotten anything without a strike," says Patrick. "I don't see any way to avoid one this year." If that is so, the nation will get an unpleasant Christmas present from the coal fields...
Freed from the necessity of wooing voters or answering opponents, Mrs. Gandhi was able to sidestep her socialistic promises of welfare programs and land reform. To contain inflation, the government in effect banned strikes and required employers to withhold and deposit in banks money awarded to workers in wage increases. Production quotas on private industry were lifted. (Businesses had not been allowed to produce as much as they could, out of socialistic concern that their owners might get too rich.) The dominant state-owned sector of industry, which deals in such key goods as steel, coal and iron...
...cutbacks in food subsidies. That, in turn, meant price increases in government stores of as much as 50% for a loaf of bread, while the cost of sugar leaped 25%, tea 35% and bottled gas, which Egyptians use for cooking and heating, 50%. In a country where the average wage is only $26 a month, the news was disastrous...
PUERTO RICANS feel very differently and ambiguously about the United States. After years of association, many know the U.S. from a tour in the Armed Forces or service in minimum-wage industries in the Northeast. Everyone has part of his family living there. And the tie with the United States has brought branches of every imaginable institution into the island: there are subsidiaries of the Rotary Club, of the pentecostal churches, of J.C. Penney's. The island has gotten just enough of the benefits of the American way of life to feel jealous of it and superior to the rest...