Word: generous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...significant manning reductions (an estimated 600 of 4,300 employees will be phased out), the right to introduce some laborsaving new technology, and a promised end to unauthorized work stoppages. Production was interrupted 74 times in 1978 alone, costing the papers $5.6 million. In return, the unions were given generous severance payments (an average of $26,000 per worker), better wages (up between 20% and 45% over two years), an extra week's vacation (for a total of six) and substantially improved pension and sick-pay formulas...
...embassies of countries that supported the Somoza dynasty. These unrepentant loyalists have attempted a counterrevolution, with political assassinations and minor acts of sabotage. Marxist Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez is determined to crush this threat, even if doing so belies the new regime's promise of a "generous revolution." Last week the decomposed body of Somoza Loyalist Pablo Emilio Salazar, the flamboyant "Commandante Bravo" of the national guard, was found in Honduras' capital of Tegucigalpa. Salazar had been tortured, and shot six times. By week's end his assassins were still unknown...
...National Security Council set up an interagency task force to review the area's problems. Two months ago Vance sent former Under Secretary of State Philip Habib on a ten-day tour of the area to re-examine U.S. policy. Among Habib's still secret recommendations: providing generous aid through multilateral organizations like the Caribbean Group for Cooperation in Economic Development, which includes several European nations as well as Venezuela, Japan, Brazil and Canada. Though some Caribbean nations would prefer unilateral assistance from the U.S., a multinational approach would short-cut the resentment that stemmed from John Kennedy...
...long stretches of narrative. As Charles ponders life in a Dehli jail cell. Thompson writes about his future. He required "a country in which he was neither known nor wanted by police, one in which riches abounded, one whose borders were easy to traverse illegally, one whose residents were generous with attention--and applause." The author concludes Sobhraj's destiny will lead him to the United States...
...mansion has a chamber bedecked with the heads of animals Longoria acquired on his 20 African safaris, and a "pink room" that is dominated by a huge rug of that color given to him by Morocco's royal family. Unlike many of Mexico's new rich, Longoria makes generous donations to charity. He has built a church and an elementary school in his home town, and his wife Jeanette is a member of Mixteca de Cárdenas, an organization that helps rural women market their handcrafted products. Says Longoria: "There is mobility in our society, and I am proof...