Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...open last week showed that the Consumer Price Index leaped up at an annual rate of 18% in February, every bit as bad as the January figure that so rattled the nation. Worse, prices rose so much faster than wages that the purchasing power of a typical U.S. urban worker's after-tax pay dropped 1.4% in February alone. Major banks raised their prime interest rate on business loans yet again...
...known to rivals as "mysterious Michele" for his deft behind-the-scenes maneuvers. Son of a Sicilian farm worker, Michele Sindona, 59, worked his way up to become the legal and financial adviser to important Italian companies, the Vatican and, some say, the Mafia. Creating his own holding company, he amassed a $450 million fortune. In 1972 Sindona purchased controlling interest in Long Island's Franklin National Bank, the 20th largest in the U.S. Two years later, Franklin National collapsed, the biggest bank failure in U.S. history, and the Government blamed mysterious Michele...
...Peter Boyle at Somerville Central Hospital looked at the x-rays and took blood samples from patients all day. "We're not too sure what this stuff is," another hospital worker said. "If anything unusual happens to you, make sure and call...
...economic crunch is really hitting the lower income worker," Edward B. Childs, chief shop steward for Local 26, said yesterday. "Our demands are realistic and not extravagant," he added. Both Childs and Waldron refused to disclose the union's demands, but Waldron said he was "optimistic" about the outcome of the upcoming negotiations...
...final demands will reflect worker input and proposals, the source added...