Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compensation for the pay cut the city also offered 99-per-cent health care coverage, which fell $400 short of the making up for wage losses, he said...
...inflation. We must prevent people like this from becoming resentful of the institution that leads them." For some M.P.s, however, the reaction of Britain's housewives was of less concern than the reaction of Britain's labor unions, which have been asked to restrain demands for inflationary wage increases voluntarily in keeping with the government's vaunted "social contract." Having postponed voting themselves a salary hike in order to set a good example for the country, many M.P.s had hoped that the monarchy would follow a similar course...
...Black Muslims in America, Sociologist C. Eric Lincoln says that "the entire movement is a kind of reserve fighting corps-ready to wage open war against the entire white community in case of white provocation." But Muhammad had mellowed in recent years. In his last public appearance a year ago, he even declared that the "slave master is no longer hindering us; we're hindering ourselves...
...reforms the state agreed to in the process of bargaining at Attica only three--the creation of an ombudsman's office, a grievance procedure, and allowing political activity--were real changes. The rest were either hedged promises conditional on legislative action--modernizing inmate education and applying the minimum wage to inmate labor, for instance--or changes like allowing religious freedom that Wicker thought should have been in effect all along. The inmates were holding out for amnesty from prosecution for actions taken during the rebellion. They knew of the Auburn and Tombs riots after which the state had filed grab...
...Soviet Union and its policies has not changed over the years, nor has his unabashed love of flag and country and the presidency-if not all the Presidents. For a while, Meany even cooperated with Richard Nixon. But he angrily broke with the President after claiming that his wage and price controls discriminated against labor...