Word: waging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brighton his mere appearance on the dais sparked more spirited applause than Callaghan's best lines had received. Speaking in a sibilant, upper-class accent, his cricketer-pink cheeks crinkling with earnestness, the former viscount called for bold economic and social reforms and vowed to wage "a tremendous battle" against "decaying capitalism." One hint of policies to come under a future Benn government: a conference vote in favor of renationalizing -without compensation-the industries that the Thatcher government is partially selling off to the private sector...
Harvard members of the Graphic Arts International Union (Local 300) last week presented the University with a list of contract demands, including a substantial wage increase, a built-in cost-of-living clause and a reduction in their work week...
...contract requests a wage increase to $5, a cost of living clause, and protection for workers from pesticides used on crops. Chavez said it is possible that Church is using an illegal pesticide...
...wage?" (Stay calm, you don't get a wage searching for another job either...
...forced to take strong measures to bring down inflation. Grove and Washington Economic Consultant Robert Nathan reluctantly vote for a "quick and dirty" solution that would include draconian measures. Says Grove: "The ideal program would be very sharp fiscal and monetary policies buttressed at the outset by wage and price controls. The controls would be cosmetic, to convince people that the program is really going to work." Okun scorns this as the "trillion-dollar cure," meaning that it would cost the nation that much in lost production. He believes that such a solution would be "disastrous" because "it would have...