Word: waging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...labor contracts will lower wage hikes and change old industry ways...
...propensity for bellicose rhetoric that has frightened its allies and its own citizens more than it has restrained its adversaries. Administration officials have made numerous statements suggesting a policy shift from the traditional imperative of deterring nuclear war to a new, or at least more explicit, preparedness to wage such a war if necessary...
...after the missiles are fired, would there be anything?and anyone?left? Should nuclear weapons be regarded simply as new and more destructive instruments for waging war? And thereby, in Karl von Clausewitz's famous phrase, continuing politics by other means? Some strategists, including a number who are either members of or consultants to the Reagan Administration, believe that with proper improvements in American defenses, the U.S. could wage and win a nuclear war. Despite the disclaimers of their leaders, some Soviet strategists almost certainly believe their country could do the same thing. Other specialists, both American and Soviet...
...Teamsters Union has signed a contract with major trucking firms providing for reduced benefits and no wage increases, and the United Auto Workers has agreed with the Ford Motor Co. on a contract containing wage and other concessions calculated to save the company $1 billion in labor costs over the 31-month life of the contract. U.A.W. and General Motors bargainers last week sat down to work out a similar deal that both sides hoped to have ratified by the union rank and file next week. On the other hand, economists are by no means sure that labor will continue...
...devaluation have been Mexico's middle and lower classes, who have been devastated by the diminished ability of their paychecks to buy imported goods that range from powdered milk to electrical appliances. Late last week the Secretary of Labor announced that all workers will get wage increases between 10% and 30% to compensate for the devaluation. Meanwhile, in an effort to prevent a potential price explosion from shattering the entire economy, which is already suffering from 30%-plus inflation, the government has imposed controls on more than 5,000 goods, ranging from chocolate and ham to automobiles...