Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christian Democrats knew long before election day that they were in trouble. Italy's economic miracle had run out of steam. Soaring consumer prices led to bloated wage demands and a rash of strikes. Public services were so badly administered that they were cynically called "public disservices." Unemployment rose to 5.7%, a high figure for Italy. Austerity policies at home (including unpopular higher taxes) brought about a dramatic improvement...
Healey insisted that the new plan, popularly dubbed Social Contract Mark Two, must be hammered out within the next few weeks, well before the Trades Union Congress's September conference sounds the opening gun for the next round of wage negotiations. Although a recent Opinion Research Center poll disclosed that 70% of Britain's voters, including 63% of trade union members, want the government to take legal control of wage settlements, the Chancellor rejected the notion of a statutory wage policy. Hopes for an effective policy of voluntary wage restraint were raised, however, when the T.U.C...
...passage of power was signaled two weeks ago by the departure of Economy Minister Alfredo Gómez Morales, who alienated workers by refusing to go along with union demands for wage increases, amounting in some cases to 150%. Seeing an opportunity to gain influence in another key ministry, López Rega apparently prevailed upon Mrs. Perón to accept Gómez Morales' resignation. His replacement was a little-known industrial engineer, Celestino Rodrigo, 60, who had previously served as Secretary in López Rega's Social Welfare Ministry...
...price increases have just about eliminated the possibility of an amicable settlement of union wage claims. The government first indicated that it would accept a final wage increase no higher than 38%, but this was immediately rejected by union leaders under pressure from an angry rank and file. A proposed ceiling of 45% imposed by decree was likewise angrily rejected. At week's end the wage talks were deadlocked, and workers seemed on the verge of industrial turmoil. There was a two-day strike at heavy-industry plants in Córdoba; when demonstrations were banned by the authorities...
Real sharks were also required. Live ones were intercut with Mattey's creation for added verisimilitude. A dead one was needed to play the shark the townspeople thought was the killer. Some local fishermen promised they could provide the genuine article. After several fruitless days -at a daily wage of $100-the anglers came up with unsuitable catches. Frantic, the film company sent to Florida, and a 13-ft. tiger shark was flown up, packed in ice like a gourmet CARE package. The imported fish hung from a hook on the Edgartown dock for four days, sending up such...