Word: wages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they monitor the markets, officials watch for signs that intervention may be needed. Sharp changes in the dollar's price can lead to orders to buy < or sell. Traders also wage psychological warfare. They did that last week simply by calling private banks and asking for the latest currency quotes. The jittery dealers on the other end took the calls as signals that the Fed was in the market, and rushed to sell more dollars...
...ground. Two of the three opposition parties, the Centrists and the Moderates, had significantly smaller totals than expected; the exception was the Liberal Party, which received 14.3% of the vote, more than doubling its 1982 tally. And what about Palme's dependence on the Communists, who want more expansive wage and public spending policies even as the government is expected to propose an austerity program? Said the Prime Minister: "It's a situation we have lived with before...
...wrong. But there is no purely moral answer to the problem. Divestment protesters clearly respond to pressures and customs in their own lives and are not motivated solely by objective, philanthropic concerns. If this were not true, the protesters would undeniably place South Africa on the back burner and wage war, for example, against the government of Ethiopia, which is restricting the flow of famine-relief efforts to rebel-held areas in that country at the expense of millions. Bok similarly acts with intuitive and political biases, but his biases are neither stronger nor less moral than those who favor...
...last week's reversal, Appeals Court Judge Anthony Kennedy wrote that Washington "has not been shown to have been motivated by impermissible sex- based considerations in setting salaries." He also ruled that "a study which indicates a particular wage structure might be more equitable should not categorically bind the employer who commissioned...
...things were already, they will probably get worse this week if, as expected, tens of thousands of black miners go on strike. In recent negotiations, some of the mining companies have come close to agreeing to the black union's demand for an across-the-board 22% wage increase, while others have not. At week's end a strike was due to begin Sunday night at five gold mines and two coal mines employing a total of 60,000 black miners. In the past such walkouts have led to the firing of large numbers of striking workers...