In truth, many public employees secured increased benefits in the 1970s, a time which saw the notion of a "budget crunch" come into play, and the state bargained its way out of salary increases (incidentally, during a time of rising inflation) in exchange for increased employee benefits.
Gillison secured increased funding from the Arts Council, the City of London Corporation and commercial sponsors, enabling the orchestra to set up a system of joint principals, attracting top musicians who could play in the LSO without having to give up their solo or chamber careers.
The likelihood of dumpsters being improperly secured increased during the day due to frequent use by downtown businesses; therefore we sampled dumpsters between 0500 and 0600 hours when no, or minimal, activity occurred.
Securing increased gas revenues is crucial for the Azerbaijani elite now that oil production has peaked.
Securing increased quality of life we offer all children might be more helpful long-term goal.
She also led her party's efforts to secure increases in the federal minimum wage.
But among the many roadblocks to securing increased funding is the challenge of candidly communicating such a need with voters.
More recently, pressure from Itasca helped secure increased funding for the state's college and university system.
Intensive agricultural practices implemented to secure increased crop yields have potentially negative environmental effects due to the generation of sediment and nutrients from agricultural fields.
Bill Havert, executive director of the Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy, which has pushed for monument status, said such a designation would not only raise the mountains' profile, but would help to secure increased federal financing to buy private land in the area.
These military payments were all made in the bona fide belief that they were necessary to protect the interest of the United States in the cotton, to secure increased vigilance, or to prevent connivance with parties interfering with or attempting to interfere with the cotton.
