Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Dunlop's proposed Construction Industry Collective Bargaining Committee might well curb inflationary wage settlements, Reagan opposes the overall measure because of the picketing provisions. Howard ("Bo") Callaway, the President's campaign manager, has warned that signing the bill would hurt him "in every one of the 50 states." Ford is expected to veto the bill. Dunlop might then resign...
...just where they got on and off." Indeed, some revisionist historians have insisted that U.S. officials used the bomb against Japan primarily-if not solely-to impress their military might upon Russia. But Sherwin disputes this interpretation, despite his conviction that both Roosevelt and Truman intended to wage atomic diplomacy against the Soviets. He argues that all policymakers connected with the Manhattan Project assumed from its inception that the Bomb would be used to win the war-and that the assumption was never seriously questioned. Sherwin does suggest (almost parenthetically) that neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki had to be destroyed...
...machinists' union originally demanded an immediate 12 per cent wage increase, and the maintenance workers' union asked for an 18 per cent increase over the next fiscal year...
Students at Penn were generally apathetic to the strikers' demands for wage increases, paying little attention to picket lines and support rallies throughout the strike...
...Personal income climbed $12.7 billion in October, to an annual rate of just under $1.3 trillion. The increase was the smallest in three months. Even so, earnings of workers rose just about as much as prices between September and October, so the buying power of wage earners did not suffer...