Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present, however, Dunlop's talents have made him one of the most popular committee members at Harvard. His efforts always focus on an agreement acceptable to the whole committee. Last June's report of the Committee of 15, for example, represents such a compromise- "a package," in the terminology of the mediator, that everybody can sign...
DUNLOP had originally negotiated a national settlement (the so-called "Model Cities agreement") to increase the number of black workers in the construction unions. The locals, however, "protected" union membership with a rigorous seven-year apprenticeship program. The apprenticeship program, blacks charged, discriminated against them and would certainly have delayed their entry into the unions. In Pittsburgh, these charges increased racial tensions and led to a workers' riot. In Boston, Dunlop introduced the concept of "trainee status" as a second route for blacks into the unions. The trainee program provided a form of special tutoring to prepare blacks...
...Kane and Marbury are retiring this year under an informal standing agreement that no member of the Corporation continue to serve past the age of seventy. Both will reach the age of retirement next summer...
...collect a fee, however, the company balked at paying. Troutman sued. When the case recently reached a federal court in Atlanta, a company vice president said that he had asked Troutman to use his influence, not to practice law. Moreover, the company argued, a court can not enforce an agreement for services that were technically illegal. In his instructions to the jury, U.S. District Judge Newell Edenfield distinguished between corrupt influence and using "personal connections or influence merely to gain access to a public official." Apparently deciding that Troutman had performed a proper legal service, the jury awarded...
...crucial matter of handling the economy, Nixon has been following Burns' advice. They are in agreement: the pressures that are being applied are right, and results will come if the Government stays on its course. Because Burns is reluctant to change his mind once he has made it up, he could stay on that course too long. Burns will unquestionably continue to have Nixon's ear. But there is some doubt in Washington about what will happen when the President decides that the time has come to switch from anti-inflation to antirecession policies-and quietly calls...