Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Callaghan has the momentum, the winds of political fortune can still change. While the latest polls show substantial Labor gains, they also indicate strong Tory support, particularly in shifting Midlands districts where British elections can be won and lost. And Callaghan has problems ahead in persuading intransigent workers to accept the wisdom of his incomes policy. Last week 57,000 assembly-line workers at Ford Motor Co. Ltd., in the seventh week of a strike for higher pay, rejected a company offer of a 16.5% increase. Meanwhile, workers in the public sector, from teachers to trash men, are also pushing...
...half of the 180,000 guests that stay at the Hilton each year are Christian, and, says Barkai tersely, "we accommodate people from all faiths." Noting that 70% of the hotel's staff of 550 people is Jewish and that many Jews work on Saturdays, Barkai refused to accept Zolty's demands, warning that "hundreds of Jews will be forced to leave hotel service." Although five other hotel managers caved in, the others are backing Barkai. So is Shlomo Goren, the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, but his support has not changed Rabbi Zolty's view...
...Immigration and Naturalization Service has sent engineers back to the drawing board to eliminate the wall's "inhumane features." They did not, however, accept the satirical advice of Editorialist Sierra: "The fence should be constructed so it will not scrape or cut and it should be built by Mexican labor. After all, Mexicans know how to weave very well. Remember our baskets...
...Pressmen's Union, which walked off the job Aug. 9 after the publishers posted new work rules, agreed to accept a six-year contract that will give members an 18% raise over the first three years (amounting to $68 per worker per week), guarantee jobs for all 1,508 regular members and reduce manning levels through attrition. Ten other unions idled by the strike were expected to return to work as well. Indeed, a major breakthrough in the talks came last week when heads of the other unions gathered to hear a report on the status of negotiations from...
...pressmen accepted lower manning levels (eleven men per press instead of twelve) and agreed to submit the issue of reduced support crews to arbitration. Those cuts are expected to save the News and Times each about $4 million a year, the Post about $2 million. The Post had resumed publication last month after Publisher Rupert Murdoch agreed to accept any terms eventually worked out between the unions and the other rival papers, a copycat clause that earned Murdoch the nickname "Mr. Me Too" among negotiators. "Both sides came out smelling like a rose," according to Kheel. Yet the strike cost...