Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Algiers is surprised to discover that five times a day his 14-year-old son joins a group of friends at a mosque for prayer. In Tunisia, whose President Habib Bourguiba has promoted equal rights for women, including divorce and abortion, students belonging to the militant Muslim Brothers wage war on "sin and evil" by painting over sexually suggestive cinema billboards and chalking quotations from the Koran on city walls. At Cairo University (enrollment: 130,000), hundreds of female Egyptian students have donned the veil and demanded classes separate from male students...
...about 55% in dividends to its 695,000 stockholders. They include not only a great number of small investors (no single stockholder owns more than 0.1% of the shares), but also pension funds, banks, universities and other institutions. In effect, these institutions manage the money of millions of ordinary wage earners-the very people, in fact, whom Carter now urges to rise up and keep the oil firms from having an excuse "to cheat the public and to damage the nation...
After five months, the wage-price standards are in deep trouble
...Carter Administration's wage-price guidelines were beset by a tide of woe last week. While the nation's long-haul trucking slowed drastically, representatives of the industry and the striking Teamsters remained unable to agree on a new contract that came near to meeting the Government's "voluntary" limit of 7% in annual wage and benefit increases. At the same time, a walkout by United Airlines machinists, who are also seeking a guideline-busting settlement, grounded all flights of the U.S.'s largest air carrier and forced the layoff of more than 13,000 pilots...
...said although wage-price guidelines call for wage hikes of no more than 7 per cent, a Teamsters contract which increases wages by 27 per cent over three years is within the guidelines because "we eased the standard and it represents genuine restraint." The contract is now pending ratification by Teamsters members...