Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just a month ago, when a similar threat loomed, the Administration applied intense pressure and the problem seemed settled. After 17 weeks of talks, negotiators for the U.S. Postal Service and three postal unions announced tentative agreement on a new three-year contract. The two key compromises: the Postal Service abandoned its effort to abolish a contract's ban on layoffs; the unions accepted relatively moderate pay and cost-of-living increases of 19.5% stretched over three years. It was the only major union contract this year to be settled on such mild terms, and Administration officials hailed...
...elections for a new city council, whose 27 members are chosen on a one-man, one-vote basis. At first none of the three major factions?the Protestant Unionists, the Catholic Socialist Democratic Labor Party (SDLP) and the nonsectarian Alliance Party?won a clear-cut majority, and by common agreement the office of mayor alternated every year between Catholics and Protestants. Then last year, for the first time, the SDLP won a working majority in the council. But the SDLP permitted power-sharing arrangements?including the mayoral rotation?to continue...
...place now known as "The Quad." However, in late 1972, the women moved down and became "integrated" into the Harvard undergraduate system. This took shape mainly with regard to co-residential housing--women have attended classes at Harvard since World War Two. Last year Radcliffe signed an agreement with Harvard which put into writing some financial arrangements, and acknowledged that in fact, Harvard would take care of undergraduate education for women. Now, the President of Radcliffe, Matina Horner, is happy, she says, because her role has been more clearly defined. You will probably hear a lot about Radcliffe this fall...
...slim, bespectacled Rumanian trade official's visit to Cologne seemed routine. After checking into the Inter-Continental Hotel one day last July, he spent the week negotiating an agreement for his country to produce a West German transport plane. Then, on the eve of his scheduled return to Bucharest, Ion Pacepa, 50, disappeared. Mystified Rumanian diplomats asked the Cologne police to investigate, but the search turned up no clues. Pacepa had vanished without a trace...
...party hosts liable for injuries caused by drunken customers or guests. In the light of an abundance of other social cautions, one can almost imagine that the Oklahoma legislator was serious in proposing the bill, happily defeated last winter, that would have required a woman to obtain a written agreement as a legal precondition for sexual intercourse...