Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Zinman '93 agreed with Nelson, saying, "It sucks because we need more bike racks." He said the problem is especially severe because many of the smaller racks are not made for the kryptonite locks he and other bicyclists...
HUCTW's contract called for structural salaryincreases of 16 percent over three years as wellas smaller merit and progression-based raises.Less expensive health care plans and an improvedpension system were also among the benefits hailedby workers...
...adherence to church teachings fails to recognize that "not all teachings are equally authoritative -- and some are wrong." And while major institutions like Notre Dame might be immune to the pressure of a conservative local bishop, McBrien says that "a right-wing bishop could move in on a smaller institution, and the board would cave in." The key question is whether the decree's ambiguous language will inspire any bishops to do just that...
...reform of our economy must begin, alas, with taxes. The fact that America bears a smaller tax burden than other developed countries is not conclusive: perhaps the others are doing it wrong. Still, as a nation we are reluctant to pay for what we -- the sum of all our various constituencies and interest groups -- want. At the same time, we don't get adequate value for the taxes we do pay. So tax increases must be balanced by severe cuts in expenditures, especially entitlements for the better off, plus farm and other subsidies. But a mere split-the-difference deal...
Industry has begun to recognize that the age of assembly-line mass production is over and that what has been called the second industrial revolution, based on the computer, involves smaller, flexible units with far fewer layers of middle management. Government, by contrast, is stuck in the political equivalent of the assembly-line, mass-production era -- insensitive, inflexible, overregulated and overstaffed, partly because Congress keeps mandating innumerable and conflicting functions. Even though it may seem impossible, we must have a long-range effort to reorganize our government machinery...