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Labor negotiations for a new three-year contract are now under way in Pittsburgh, and they will shape the industry's labor costs for the early 1980s. The 450,000 steelworkers are among the highest-paid American industrial laborers; their hourly wages average $10.59, and bene fits swell the total to $16.80. The United Steelworkers' high priority now, says President Lloyd McBride, is to win better pensions for their 250,000 retirees. Equally important is preserving jobs; in the past 20 years, more than 100,000 jobs have been lost because of plant shutdowns. Thus the union does...
...Harvard seniors have won Marshall Scholarships to study for two years in Great Britain, the British Consulate-General announced yesterday. Harvard had the highest number of recipients, followed by Princeton and Yale, with four each...
...crisis began when the Chicago Fire Fighters Union became locked in an angry, name-calling feud with strong-willed Mayor Jane Byrne. Richard Daley, her predecessor, had kept the firemen content by raising their pay without a contract until the average $22,300-a-year salary was among the highest paid to the nation's firemen. But Byrne resisted demands for a contract that would assign a six-man team to each fire truck (up from the current four or five men), cover supervisors, and include the right to strike...
...whom he has assigned numbers 10 through 14), "a mover and a shaker, almost a superman." Replied one of the women: "I'm very excited about this ... I'm tentatively going to select No. 13 because he's the youngest of the donors and has the highest IQ." As a condition for receiving Nobel sperm, the applicants agreed to send Graham regular reports on the pregnancy and, after birth, on the child's health...
Though he came to office with inflation at less than 5% and the economy growing briskly, Carter has presided over economic and financial turmoil that has nearly tripled the rise in consumer prices, flattened growth, ballooned the federal debt and pushed interest rates to their highest levels in the nation's history. Last week the rate banks charge their best corporate customers rose a quarter-point to 16.75%. The so-called leading economic indicators, which seek to portend future business trends, fell in January, the fourth consecutive monthly decline. Many economists regard this as a sign that the nation...