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...their pay raise in the light of the 41% hike that Congressmen had voted for themselves the previous February, were infuriated rather than satisfied. Government employees generally were scheduled to receive another small raise this July 1. As an anti-inflation measure, however, the Nixon Administration proposed deferring that increment for six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE STRIKE THAT STUNNED THE COUNTRY | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...extremes of actual hunger and physical debilitation. By guaranteeing a minimum income to every one of its citizens, a society as affluent as today's America can afford not only to keep its economic cripples well housed, well fed?and well?but also to provide them with the crucial increment of dignity that is denied by penury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A NATION WITHIN A NATION | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...workers received an adjustment of 4 per cent in their wages from July, 1966 to July 1967; a 4 1/2 per cent wage increase for the year ending July 28, 1968; and a 5 per cent increment for the final contract period, which extends to December...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: B&G Employees Accept Contract | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...most logical increment, Mrs. Bunting explained, would be to build another Radcliffe House to relieve over-crowding and off-campus living...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mrs. Bunting Says Low Dropout Rate Brings Radcliffe Enrollment Increase | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...Federation does succeed in quadrupling its membership and in achieving some kind of tolerably representative status, the implications of its "adversary" stance are grave. One can refuse to sign a petition, one can even refuse to accept any salary increment resulting from the unlikely success of such a petition, but one cannot easily halt the trend towards an industrial-type confrontation. Harvard becomes a factory, Teaching Fellows become machine operators, the undergraduates become sausages and the administration the evil board of directors. My great-great-grandfather, who organized the miners on the Radstock coalfield, must be turning in his grave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEACHING FELLOWS | 2/18/1967 | See Source »

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