Word: waging
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When poet Emma Lazarus wrote those words of welcome for the Statue of Liberty, there was a certain logic to America's open-arms policy towards immigration. The sparsely-populated nation, its industrial economy just beginning to take off, needed the low-wage factory workers and energetic small farmers streaming out of Europe...
That's where the contradiction with S. 2222's goals comes in. If history is any guide, the IMF program in Mexico will include further currency devaluations, wage cuts, and higher prices for basic consumption goods. The result of these policies will be further misery for Mexico's hard-pressed lower classes--but not any increase in Mexican economic independence. Mexicans will simply continue to try to find work in this country. Indeed, immigration officials report that the peso devaluation was followed immediately by record numbers of Mexicans trying to jump the U.S. border...
...learned, can come through close cooperation with organized labor. Yet President Reagan, formerly of the Screen Actors Guild, seems to have no more regard for unions than his counterpart across the Atlantic Reagan's wholesale liquidation of the air controllers union. PATCO, and his proposals for a flexible minimum wage and child labor standards fly in the face of trade union principles...
...Lebanese crisis was by no means over. The country still contained an estimated 60,000 Israeli soldiers and perhaps half as many Syrian troops, and the two armies might yet wage a full-scale war with each other on Lebanese soil. Last week, in fact, sporadic fighting broke out between the Syrians and both the Israelis and the Christian Phalange forces, which are closely aligned with the Israelis. The Lebanese Parliament had elected a new national president, the leader of the Christian Phalangist forces, Bashir Gemayel, who was despised by many Lebanese Muslims as an "Israeli stooge." But the Israeli...
...first seven months of 1982. Inflation had been raging at a rate of 12.4% in 1980, and it was going at an annual pace of 9.7% in January 1981, the month Reagan was inaugurated. The drop since then has been caused by a sharp slowdown in wage hikes, due to the recession, and by only moderate increases and even some declines in the cost of food, fuel, housing and other key consumer items. Many economists expect inflation to remain at 5% to 6% for the rest of the year...