Word: waging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Falwell's most controversial venture, Moral Majority, a lobbying and political-action group that claims 6.5 million members. Falwell started Moral Majority in 1979, thrusting the religious right into front-line politics. The way Falwell saw it, if liberal clergymen could march for civil rights, conservative Fundamentalists could wage political war on immorality. Moral Majority espoused an odd ecumenism that aligned Falwell on various issues with Catholics, Jews and Mormons, all scorned in the past by strict Fundamentalists...
UNDER THE NEW AGREEMENT the minimum wage for baseball players was increased by a approximately 33 percent--up from an indecent $42,500 to an almost respectable $60,000. The modest increase may finally be just enough to raise the average ballplayer above the Saudi Arabian poverty line. The average annual salary, on the other hand, should get closer to about $400,000, which in all fairness, is fair compensation for having to work with selfless players like like Lee Mazzili, Roy Smalley, and Jim Rice...
...awakening appeared at the beginning of the summer when clothing employees walked out of several factories in the heartland of the Massachusetts textile industry. Some of the New Bedford and Fall River clothing workers were out for six weeks to block a management attempt to take unilateral control over wage setting. The workers were successful, and as they returned to work, shipbuilders in Maine followed the lead of Bay State manufacturing employees...
...marathon 20-hour Cabinet meeting early last week, Peres forced through a package of austerity measures designed to shock the economy back to health. The program included an 18.8% devaluation of the shekel (which beforehand was worth 1,262 to the U.S. dollar) and a three-month general wage and price freeze, along with price increases of 17% to 82% on such subsidized products as gasoline, bread and milk. At the same time, the Cabinet cut away the methods that Israelis use to protect themselves from inflation, by suspending the wage-indexing system that ties earnings to the cost...
Under the threat of a further, indefinite strike, Peres delayed carrying out the most controversial parts of his program, including the wage freeze, suspension of the indexing system and government layoffs, pending negotiations with Histadrut. The Prime Minister faces opposition as well from the Likud Party, Labor's partner in the National Unity government. Seven Likud members , voted against the economic package in the Cabinet, although Likud grudgingly supported the government afterward in a vote of confidence by the Knesset...