Word: waging
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While the ability to wage such high-tech combat will remain a dream, or nightmare, for years to come, it is very much a gleam in the Pentagon's eye. Working largely through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a special unit devoted to exotic weaponry, military planners are developing a generation of computerized land and air systems that Buck Rogers would envy. Prototypes are being built by defense contractors around the U.S., and will be tested in coming months at sites ranging from private proving grounds to engineering laboratories...
...hike that went into effect on July 1. That increase ranged between 14% and 19.6%, but the union wants an across-the-board raise of 22%. The union claims it can get 240,000 workers to walk out. The Chamber of Mines, the trade association that handles wage negotiations, says the real number is closer to 65,000. Either way, the walkout could create still another arena of conflict between blacks and whites...
...exchange for a block of the airline's stock. Icahn accepted the pilots' proposition and then concluded a similar arrangement with TWA's International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The two unions represent about 17,000 of TWA's 27,000 workers, and the total value of the wage concessions offered amounted to about $145 million annually. In return Icahn promised to give employees 20% of the airline's stock, as well as a 20% share of earnings. He also vowed not to dismantle TWA or dispose of any assets related to airline jobs. Icahn told TIME that...
...fury was directed at Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, who two weeks earlier had introduced an economic austerity plan. With its call for a 15% devaluation of the Greek drachma, wage curbs, new taxes, import controls and cuts in public spending, the plan was designed to ease the country's roughly $6 billion budget deficit, its $3 billion balance of payments deficit and its $14 billion foreign debt. Despite the resulting labor confrontation, the government refuses to give way. Since the real impact of the austerity will not begin to be felt for months, Papandreou will probably win this round. Last...
...fact that the tiny country (pop. 240,000) could not function without its women. Why make that rather obvious point? Because working women in Iceland earn 40% less than men on average, though 80% of working-age women hold jobs. Journalists seeking more data on that shocking wage disparity ran into trouble. "I'm sorry," said a female employee at the Iceland Information Office. "I can't speak to you. I'm on strike...