Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...auto workers' union members are requested to accept a two-year freeze on all cost of living increases and a slight reduction in fringe benefits. This would mean that a Chrysler worker would earn $17.31 an hour in 1981, rather than $20.45, and $17.52 an hour in 1982, rather than $22.11. The concessions would be worth approximately $600 million to the company. Iacocca last week bluntly told the United Auto Workers, "It's freeze time, boys. Chrysler's got good jobs available at $17.30 an hour. We don't have them...
Overall, the Crimson maintained a slight 31-26 lead on the boards, a statistic which indicates at least a partial recovery from the generally dismal rebounding performances of the last few games. Besides Carrabino, co-captain Mark Harris also turned in a key performance underneath, crashing the hoop to come up with six rebounds. Harris scored 11 points--the fourth Crimson player to hit double figures...
...afternoon, the 400-yd. medley relay, a Yardling foursome of Dave Phillips, Dean Putterman, Tony Meier and Mike Miao buried all doubts about the Class of 1984's swimming ability with a three-second-plus win. Although fellow freshman Julian Bott gave the Crimson's other relay entry a slight edge on the backstroke leg, breaststroker Putterman stole the lead which Meier stretched out before handing it over to Miao, who raced him with the victory...
Some pollsters at that time, however, were getting results that showed a slight Reagan lead. ABC News-Harris surveys, for example, consistently gave Reagan a lead of a few points until the climactic last week of October...
Though borrowing by corporations has helped stimulate demand for money until now, bankers, businessmen and economists expect the looming business slowdown to allow rates to fall back slight ly. Says Milton Hudson, a senior vice president for Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.: "These current rates are going to hurt economic activity as well as pinch the demand for credit. We are expecting no real growth at all during the first quarter of 1981, and it will be a close call as to whether or not the economy will actually decline...