Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rating is a black star for "critically deficient," which the IFALPA has given to 19 airports (the only one in the U.S. is Los Angeles International). Among the reasons for the Mexico City airport's low rating are deficiencies in electronic navigational aids and landing equipment. Moreover, a standard map of the airport distributed to pilots carries this warning: "CAUTION: Street lights approximately one mile north of ... Runway 23-L may be mistaken for runway lights in conditions of low visibility." Gilbert was reading a copy of the map on the way down. And, at the time...
...journalistic dilemma: Are a candidate's personal peccadilloes legitimate issues in a presidential campaign? The old rule - such indiscretions are off-limits as long as they do not interfere with official performance - has been breaking down in the wake of Watergate, Wayne Hays and Wilbur Mills. A new standard may evolve as the presidential campaign unfolds. Says Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship: "We haven't yet thought out how far bedroom activity takes you into legitimate journalism...
Carter is flirting with no-standard standards...
...take over from George Meany as president of the AFL-CIO, launched a sharp attack on the old 7% pay ceiling, calling a single guideline figure "a mad infatuation with a figure that bears within it the seeds of its own destruction." Kirkland wants to replace the old standard with case-by-case wage settlements. The top business representative on the board. National Association of Manufacturers President R. Heath Larry, argued equally adamantly against moving toward any à la carte pay guide. At another point in the meeting, Kirkland and R. Robert Russell, director of the Administration's Council...
Although such powerful unions as the Teamsters and the United Automobile Workers have mangled the 7% pay guideline in the contracts they have won this year, the standard has nonetheless helped moderate many salary agreements. In the past year most workers, especially nonunion ones, have settled for pay hikes close to the 7% standard. Wage increases in major union contracts actually declined overall from last year's 8.2%, to 7.5% from January through June. Carter's chief economic adviser, Charles Schultze, hails this as "one of the truly unreported stories of the year...