Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington will not necessarily sit still in the future when confronted with a threat that it considers serious. There may be some psychological value in keeping an intractable foe guessing. But the Administration's position on the amendment increases apprehensions among Americans that the U.S. will continue to wage war, directly or indirectly, outside of South Viet Nam. Further, by postponing a vote in the Senate, the loyalists give new ammunition to dissenters who argue that opposition to the war through legitimate channels is doomed to strangulation...
...Cambodia's broad flatlands, ARVN commanders could wage a conventional, European-style war of maneuver, using textbook tactics that the Communists chose not to test in determined combat. Only four days after Nine Dragons began, ARVN General Ngo Dzu's armored columns had effortlessly swept light Viet Cong forces from the towns of Takeo and Kompong Trach and the key ports of Kep and Kampot. Equally facile was ARVN Task Force 318's high-speed dash 75 miles down Highway 1 toward Phnom-Penh. TIME Correspondent John Mulliken joined General Tri as he directed the drive alternately...
...France's devaluation and West Germany's revaluation. As a result, the country's chronic balance of payments deficit was turned into a projected $1.2 billion surplus for 1970. A bullish mood was in the air, and voters began to feel their pocketbooks swelling with widespread wage increases averaging 6% in the past six months alone. The change of British fortunes was soon reflected in local elections and opinion polls...
...strike, which kept more than half of the city's 25,000 teachers off the job and one-third of its 650,000 students out of class, was called despite an earlier board offer of a 5% wage hike. The striking teachers insisted that the students must profit too. But the school board is reluctant to make the swap without hearing from those who stayed on the job and thus did not vote on the raise. The teachers' selflessness, though, may have impressed Californians, who will vote June 2 on a statewide referendum calling for a minimum boost...
...next president will inherit a conflict that even a bargainer of Reuther's skill and prestige would be hard-pressed to resolve peacefully. The three-year contracts in the auto industry expire Sept. 14. Responding to the surge of militancy from union men who feel that their wage gains have been eroded by inflation, Reuther had talked up huge wage and pension demands. He also was building a $120 million war chest that could carry the U.A.W. through a ten-week strike against General Motors, or a longer one against Ford or Chrysler. Auto men, hurt worse than most...