Word: wages
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Recent events in the Middle East may force that choice upon American citizens of draft age and such a summer job will then be more than fiction. But even if the nation decides to wage war, the decision to fight must remain as personal as the choice of a summer job. An individual's position concerning a certain war's justness or morality must outweigh his committment to a collective national decision to fight. Because a soldier carries out the killing and destruction of the national decision to go to war, if he is not convinced a war is justified...
Despite its remarkable progress, however, Argentina is far from cured. Economic experts agree that permanent recovery is dependent on the government's ability to lift wage and price controls without reviving inflation. Alfonsin must also induce more private investment and woo back the approximately $25 billion in capital that fled the country during inflationary times. Finally, the government will have to return to private hands some of the 300 or so state-owned enterprises, which lost a total of $2 billion last year. All of this will require public confidence that inflation has truly been conquered...
...strong showing in congressional elections last month, an apparent sign that the public approves of the President's performance. But it is still too early for Alfonsin to declare a total victory in his campaign to restore international respect for Argentina. He has promised union leaders a still undetermined wage increase early next year to make up for lost purchasing power. Businessmen are clamoring for similar price relief. The trials next year of the 300 lower-ranking officers accused of crimes in the dirty war--and a separate trial, now under way, of Galtieri and two other junta members...
Black unions have been legal in South Africa only since 1979. At first they restricted their activities to work-related issues, and their efforts met with varying success. Last year 40,000 black miners staged their first legal strike and won wage and benefit increases from South Africa's mining companies, which have generally been receptive to reforms. In September, however, the miners' union was forced to suspend a strike after only three days when less conciliatory mine operators threatened to dismiss the strikers and evict them from company-owned housing...
...terrorist activities everywhere, which means we're good guys after all) in an attempt to counter what we believe is a serious threat to Democracy and self-determination. Nicaragua is not as bad as either South Africa or the Soviet Union. Thus, we should finance terrorist activity or possibly wage all-out covert war against both countries...