Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coors workers began the strike in April, when the company, which has been a union shop for 42 years, sought to limit seniority rights and diminish the authority of Local 366 of the brewery workers union over its 1,472 members. But the union quickly turned the dispute into an ideological confrontation with Chairman William Coors, 61, and his brother Joseph, 60, a well-known backer of the John Birch Society and other right-wing causes. The union's allies are particularly upset by the firm's practice of using lie-detector tests to probe into the lives...
...together in Michigan (neither was ever in the state). The bureau spent weeks trying to trace a bad check Oswald was supposed to have cashed in a bar in Pflugerville, Texas, and months tracking the origins of graffiti discovered in a boxcar reading LEE OSWALD-FUTURE MAN OF DESTINY, APRIL 4, 1963 (it turned out a railway workman had scribbled the words as a post-assassination prank...
...Beltsville White turkeys (one of which she will later carve with gusto at her table); points proudly to three eggs freshly laid by her Rhode Island Red hens; strokes her pet sow, which is ready to have piglets and then become part of her larder; hails her goat April, a daily source of milk; and shows all the joy of a Washington dirt farmer in her modest (65 acres) spread. Then she marches through a stand of Douglas fir to the slate-gray pebbled beach that fronts her property, and gazes fondly out at the waters she has known since...
President Carter is one politican who campaigned on a platform that listed a "comprehensive program of national health insurance" as one of its major concerns. In April 1976 and again in October of that year Carter said: "The coverage, (National Health Insurance coverage) must be universal and mandatory...freedom of choice in the selection of a physician and treatment center...will always be maintained...We must phase in the program as rapidly as revenues permit, helping first those who most need help, and achieving a comprehensive program well-defined...
Bellows is walking into the jaws of another strong-willed publisher. Francis L. Dale, 56, a U.S. diplomat in Geneva before becoming Herald-Examiner publisher in April, has turned the Saturday-afternoon edition into a more promising morning paper, plastered the building with posters for what he calls "Operation Upward Bound," and installed seat belts on his chair to remind employees to hold back on flamboyant schemes...