Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House labored exhaustively behind the scenes for a moderate settlement, and made a compromise in the middle of last week. Reversing an earlier ruling, a top-level strategy group said that 21? of a 58?-an-hour cost of living increase due to the union on April 1 under the expiring contract should not be counted in the cost of a new settlement. That was expected to clinch the deal. But after the talks broke down, Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons made it clear that the Administration's efforts to impose its guidelines had been a key factor...
Next day Callaghan went to see the Queen to ask for the dissolution of Parliament. Emerging from Buckingham Palace, "Sunny Jim" was his usual cheerful self. "I always look forward to a good fight," he said. The campaign officially begins April 7, the day Parliament will be dissolved, and it seems certain that a battle royal is in the making. "My troops are ready," said Thatcher. "They have been ready for quite some time...
...cartel, which had raised its official price by 5% in January, achieved its new 9% boost by putting into effect on April 1 a series of phased increases that had been planned for the rest of 1979. There were worrisome signs that the OPEC countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq and other producers, were determined to make their new price offensive stick by limiting production now that Iranian output is once again climbing. Bragged Iraq's fiery Oil Minister, Tayeh Abdul-Karim: "No one country can affect this market now. As Iran's production goes up again, ours will...
...minutes after midnight on April 14, some 2,500 thick letters and 9,000 thin ones will leave the Providence post office. The thick letters offer admission to Brown, a highly selective Ivy League university. The thin letters say no or relegate applicants to the limbo of the waiting list. Those who go through thick and thin are participating in a process that mixes careful weighing, educated guesswork and plain horse trading. TIME's Evan Thomas sat in on the admissions committee. His report...
...Corporation's statement last April says, however, that the Corporation would support the withdrawal from South Africa by any company that "does not disclose substantially all the information required by" the ACSR...