Word: minimums
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Secretary of State. They also named Raymond James Donovan, 50, a New Jersey construction executive as Reagan's nominee for Secretary of Labor. In addition, they were preparing a crash economic plan that Reagan is considering submitting to Congress within three weeks of his Inauguration; at a minimum, the program will put a freeze on federal hiring and cut spending sharply...
...Secretary will have to be equally resourceful at the Labor Department. Business groups will want him to rein in pesky regulatory agencies like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Unions will want him to resist those pressures and to quash the idea, popular among businessmen, of a lower minimum wage for youths. While declining to take a stand on such issues before his confirmation hearing, Donovan does say that he thinks reducing the Government's role in the economy is crucial. Says he: "We no longer have the best and the cheapest. We must get back to work...
...loss. Since the Cuban refugee crisis, two-thirds of the U.S. Coast Guard fleet has been redeployed to patrol the Florida coast. In addition, smuggling has become more risky in Florida, where antidrug enforcement efforts have been stepped up and tough new laws against marijuana smuggling include minimum mandatory sentences of up to 15 years in jail...
...Michel has his way, confrontation will be kept to a minimum. Stinging in partisan debate on the floor, he is conciliatory in the cloakroom, putting together packages and deals. Michel and Tennessee's Howard Baker, the new Senate majority leader, will have unaccustomed Republican muscle. In the next Congress, the G.O.P. can claim 192 of the House's 435 members, as well as 53 of 100 Senators...
...sleigh Believes that conservation is a must But cars--they're part of the American way; He finds his cheer in a handful of rust. His new job he won in a landslide, So now he, not Nick, prepares to ride. He fired all the reindeer--they demanded the minimum wage. He banned all Christmas spirits for elves who were underage. 'The Workshop has to get moving again,' He told toymakers, craftsmen and elves; But the ones that he blessed with his friendship Were the ones who made guns for themselves. Now he sets off on lengthy Christmas rounds...