Word: waging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tide of history," Ronald Reagan told a conference of conservatives in 1986, "is all but irreversibly turned our way." Last week the historic 100th Congress was busy debating federal funding for child care, job leave for parents, increases in the minimum wage and final touches on a welfare-reform act. The President himself signed into law a congressionally initiated expansion of the food-stamp program, the most sweeping in a decade. The actions simply underscored what the Democratic Congress has been proving throughout the final two years of Ronald Reagan's second term: tides that flow also...
...rally is being publicized on campus by the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) as "a show of union solidarity against anti-union employers," said an organizer for the union. Since acquiring Eastern in 1986, Lorenzo has tried to lay off thousands of employees, and gain wage concessions from union negotiators...
...average wage of a woman is still just 59 cents to every dollar of the average male wage, said Rondeau...
...average wage of a clerical worker at Harvard is $1000 less than the average city worker in Boston," Rondeau told the 20 students at the first meeting of the committee for Economic Change...
...wake of national and municipallegislation in the U.S. banning smoking in publicplaces and on airplanes, opponents of smoking havebegun to wage their battle on the internationaltrade front...