Anything more would send a signal to other workers to press for higher wages.
Moreover, Dr. Frieden said, the administration will continue to press for higher cigarette taxes of 50 cents more per pack.
Pensioners will press for higher taxes to fund the pensions and health care they believe they have been promised.
The group has pledged to continue to press for higher compensation for land taken for the pipelines, and to push for better-paying jobs along the pipelines' route.
The big test will come this autumn, when the new reforms come up for discussion just as the unions press for higher pay in next year's budget.
Family members who are mere shareholders are likely to press for higher dividends, whereas those who remain in management will want reinvestment and growth.
She added that workers were unlikely to press for higher wages to compensate for dearer food at a time when labour markets were softening and this would allow policy makers to ignore the increase in inflation as an external shock.
It worries that Britain may be relapsing into an inflationary psychology which would encourage workers to press for higher wages and firms to feel that they can push through price increases.
Mr. Ahmadinejad had announced nine days earlier that he would assume the position of oil minister on a caretaker basis in time to attend the OPEC meeting to press for higher oil prices.
In "The Logic of Collective Action" (1965), Mancur Olson argued that rational individuals will work hard in a group with a selective aim reserved for its members (prison guards banding together to press for higher wages, for instance); they will expend less energy to push for public goods whose benefits are widely shared.
LONNY REISMAN Hartford, May 18 , 2011To the Editor: Acknowledging lower use of health insurance benefits by enrollees as a result of higher premiums, deductibles and co-pays, insurance companies, you report, "continue to press for higher premiums, even though their reserve coffers are flush with profits and shareholders have been rewarded with new dividends".
