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Rich settlements for Big Labor can only widen the pay gap between its members, who have been gaining increases of 8½% to 9% so far this year, and nonunion workers, who have been getting wage-and-benefit increases averaging 7½%. Says Economist Audrey Freedman of the Conference Board, a private research group: "Managers who want to hold on to their best people are getting very uncomfortable with the disparity in pay between union and nonunion workers." Adds Economist Robert Nathan, a Washington consultant who has close ties to labor: "If unions' increases continue to be large...
...with the changes," May says, "but there is an overall department feeling that these are questions of the graduate school, not the department." The History Department sent to Rosovsky a letter summarizing some of their ideas about maintaining the viability of graduate school education, including a proposal which would widen job training to include preparation for non-academic as well as academic careers...
...more about the town meeting tradition. Mix Yankee stubborness and seriousness with a large measure of small town closeness, throw in the factional rivalries that spring up in every community and you often have an evening as worthwhile for a drama student as for a Government major. Attempts to widen roads can turn into philosophical debates over the rights of homeowners, and the rapidly mounting costs of education have triggered many a nostalgic reminiscence of the "old days...
...largest standing army, Peking has an overwhelming numerical advantage over Hanoi's 615,000 troops. In a limited punitive strike, the Chinese would probably not deploy more than 200,000 men, though the PLA's available reserves in southern China are immense if the conflict should widen. China currently has about 1.6 million men along the Soviet border-a force that Peking may decide to augment if Moscow raises the combat readiness of its own 1 million troops on the frontier in response to the crisis. One tactical plus for the PLA is that many of Hanoi...
...Defense Fund and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which stands to lose business to the waterway, charge that the corps extended the width of the channel from 170 ft. to 300 ft. without proper authorization. The corps told a congressional committee in 1951 that it had no intention of widening the waterway and acknowledged that such a change would require congressional approval. Yet the engineers later proceeded to widen the waterway without clearly stated authorization. As the trial got under way last week, Federal Judge William C. Keady noted with a smile: "It appears the corps has changed its mind...