Word: want
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patronizing Attitude." General Electric offered wage increases of 6% to 10% in the first year of the contract, but nothing more than a promise to reopen talks in the second and third years. The unions want a firmer guarantee of increases: an average 10.8% in the first year, 8.3% in the second, 6.5% at the start of the third...
...Lyndon Johnson's behest. Before last week's strike against General Electric, Shultz held private meetings with company officials and union leaders. He has quietly helped to cool several other labor disputes, particularly in the airlines. But he firmly opposes direct and heavily publicized intervention. "We want the free collective bargaining process, to work," says Shultz. "We will not be trying to twist people's arms and get them to agree to something they are not quite ready...
...really want to be a politician," Shultz says. "Basically I regard myself as a professional person." It is perhaps that professional detachment that allowed him to refrain from intervening in a two-month strike of East Coast longshoremen last winter. On a visit to New York at the height of the strike, he made a point of ordering bananas for dessert-to show that the strike had a minimal effect on the normal flow of goods...
...scheduled lines that fly the Atlantic were unable to agree on new, uniform rates. The result last week was that the Atlantic lines began operating under an anarchy called the "open rate." That means that until they agree on rates they can charge almost any fare that they want...
Fowles falls into such a state often. "My mind is constantly wandering off," he says. "If they ever want to evolve a way of picking out the prospective novelists among children, this would be the aspect to go for, this drifting...