Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real wages of blacks have risen slightly over the last decade, a fact not even the most militant of South African black nationalists will deny. But this advance is being eroded by rapid inflation, and while black wages have risen, those of white workers have risen even higher. If the color bar is floated, the wages of white workers will rise even more quickly, for the large white trade unions will not accept a decrease in the wage gap. The attitudes of most whites toward the improvement of the Africans' condition have not changed substantially over the years. One study...
KENNEDY'S CHILDREN LACKS tension, rhythm, and climax--in fact everything except actors. In Patrick's play, five excellent actors wage war with a disastrous script. They lose, but their attempts to portray real people are worth watching. Michael Sacks, as the tortured Vietnam veteran, creates vocabulary of tense gestures and hulking movements. Barbara Montgomery evokes well the mythology that enveloped the Kennedys, but Patrick ruins her best speech with a cheap shot--moved to tears, she starts to sing the theme from Camelot. Don Parker as the ex-drag queen has tried to capture the whining intonations...
...long-pending test of mandatory death penalty laws, and the applicability of federal wage and hour legislation to local government workers are among the serious questions that have been pushed aside for the moment because of Douglas' condition. "These matters can be put off for six months without any problem," says a lawyer who often argues before the court. "But if important questions of national policy, and conflicts between circuit courts of appeal are not even considered, let alone decided, for a year or more, then we're heading for trouble...
...Young Democrats' August convention. They bounced off the same bumpers, usually variations on energy and the economy, and often at the same angles, emphasizing continued price controls on domestic oil and public service jobs. Some bounced harder than others, advocating the breakup of the oil companies or wage and price controls in the inflation-prone food and energy sectors of the economy. The lights whirred and the bells changed, and the Young Democrats were bemoaning not a lack but an overabundance of "good" candidates. But when the straw vote was held on the morning of the convention's last...
...contract is unusual because it represents a granting of the union's original wage demand. In most Harvard negotiating, the University and the union begin negotiations far apart on the wage issue and gradually move toward a compromise...