Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After 34 hours of round-the-clock bargaining, negotiators for the United Auto Workers and Chrysler Corp. one night last week reached weary agreement on a new contract-less than four hours before the strike deadline. Though Chrysler was hardly happy with the generous settlement it had been forced to accept, Company Negotiators John D. Leary and William E. O'Brien greeted the accord with relief. The smallest of the Big Three automakers has been enjoying a sales spurt fueled partly by the strike at Ford. Last month was Chrysler's best October ever-and only by averting...
...Though agreement came in time, many workers had begun to walk off the job five days before the deadline, and their numbers continued to grow even after the settlement was announced. The unauthorized work stoppages finally closed down Chrysler's auto-assembly operations, though company officials hoped to resume production this week. The walkouts were caused by the same sort of unresolved local work issues that kept Ford shut down for two weeks after it agreed on a nationwide contract. Ford finally went back into production only last week...
Brezhnev and Kosygin are in agreement about liberalization in Russia, but Brezhnev takes ideology more into consideration and generally prefers a relatively tougher line. Kosygin is more practical and realistic and, though no liberal in the Western sense (both he and Brezhnev served time in Stalin's ca dres), is more or less looked to by the new intelligentsia as their best hope for further relaxation of party control. Suslov is more of a hardliner, while Podgorny has the strongest liberal tendencies of all. All four distrust the ambitious younger leaders, at whom they recently struck a blow...
...night's performance derived loosely from an 18th century commedia by Carlo Goldoni, reset to an anti-Vietnam theme. Yet that theme was so consciously overplayed, so heavily milked, so loudly belabored, that it was hard to believe it could have meant much to an audience so obviously in agreement with...
...endorsed councillors were joined by three independents: Mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., Bernard Goldberg, and William G. Maher. The only real point of agreement among the five is their support of DeGuglielmo, and a consequent opposition to the minority bloc on the Council...