Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...correspond with the recent rise in the cost of living. Laurence F. Letteri, president of the Patrolmen's Association, says the union will press for a bigger salary hike, and will also seek to obtain an increase in fringe benefits. The major fringes in question are "night and weekend differentials"--the extra pay that officers earn for working less desirable shifts. These differentials are currently far below the similar benefits that members of the Boston and Cambridge forces enjoy. The union contends that the poor fringes cast the department in a bad light and prevent it from attracting good cops...
...Bordley, a starter on the Harvard wrestling team this past winter, swept through four opponents the first weekend of spring recess to win the 167 lb. title in the National Blind Wrestling Tournament...
Jones and Mackenzie wished to build a course that would challenge the pro without overwhelming the weekend golfer. At the time, the concept was a radical one. Punitive sand traps were the contemporary vogue, but August National originally had only 29 bunkers...
...laxwomen fell to Penn by an 8-5 margin, a fact which is almost as irreligious as that of having to spend Easter weekend in Philadelphia in the first place...
...spend a weekend at a stately home not far from a handy spy (Jean Marsh of Upstairs, Downstairs). She can prepare the ground for the raiding team, not far from a deserted beach where the kidnapers can parachute in unobserved and get out again, via boat, bearing off their prize...