Word: three-year
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...sessions at least appeared to be free of the partisan wrangling that erupted on the House floor. There, Speaker Jim Wright rammed through a $14.4 billion deficit-reduction bill by a single vote, 206 to 205. The plan features $12 billion worth of tax increases, including a three-year extension of the 3% telephone excise tax, a shrinking of tax benefits for corporate takeovers, and limits on the amounts of home loans that are eligible for interest deductions ($1 million on mortgages and $100,000 for home-equity loans). "Treacherous!" exclaimed Texas Republican Richard Armey. "This is a bait...
...member (NECUSE) is the largest clusterapplying for the three-year grant. It consists ofAmherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Brown, Colby, Dartmouth,Harvard, Holy Cross, Middlebury, Mt. Holyoke,Smith, Trinity, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams andYale
...result, Barry's early season play was limited. A three-year starter on the Harvard squad, Barry's only support in the first three games came from the sidelines...
...outcome was as unexpected as it was speedy. When General Motors and the United Auto Workers began negotiating in late September, it seemed that only a prolonged strike could force GM to agree to a new three-year pact that would satisfy the union. But last week, after just eight days of formal meetings, the largest U.S. automaker and the union representing 335,000 GM workers came to terms...
...proposed three-year contract contains job-security provisions that will give workers unprecedented protection against layoffs. The pact, which is expected to be handily ratified by the U.A.W. rank and file, also includes improved pension and health benefits, along with a first-year 3% wage hike. (The base pay of the average Ford union worker is now $13.42 an hour.) In the second and third years of the contract, the employees would receive 3% bonus payments...