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...exhausted. All but one of the unappetizing characters are in desperate need of liquidity, and one of them has bumped off the firm's founder, who was a holdout against going public. Now the villain keeps making inept attempts on the life of the founder's daughter (Audrey Hepburn), who has succeeded to the presidency and to her father's no-sale policy...
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...
Central Asian Emigres in Afghanistan: Problems of Ethnic and Religious identify--Audrey Shalinsky, Rm. 1, Coolidge Hall...
Specifically invited last week, however, were the leaders' wives. Carter used the opportunity not only to give Rosalynn a vacation but also to treat eleven-year-old Amy to a Caribbean holiday. While their husbands discussed global problems, Rosalynn, Audrey Callaghan and Hannelore Schmidt were shown around the island by Anne-Aymone, Giscard's wife. In the evenings, the women joined their spouses for dinner; the first night's menu included a local fish, cheese and French champagne. With the four First Ladies present, the summit was indeed, as Carter had predicted, "somewhat of a social affair...
Complicating the Administration's problems are two other factors. One is that, in the words of Audrey Freedman, senior research associate of the nonprofit Conference Board, "the coming year opens a three-year bargaining cycle dominated by fear-on the part of all employees, union and nonunion alike-that inflation will overwhelm wage increases." Thus union members think that they ought to get the biggest raises possible to protect themselves against an inexorable rise in prices. The Administration has sought to counter that fear by ballyhooing a proposal to Congress to grant income-tax rebates to workers whose wages...