Word: autumnal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crucial as a good housekeeper. "We should own 50% of Northwest Airlines," says Hicks Griffiths, whose wife commutes to Michigan for long weekends. First-Term Congresswoman Yvonne Burke, 41, spends so much time commuting to Los Angeles, where her husband William is a health-care consultant, that daughter Autumn had logged 30,000 miles by the time she was four months...
...maintain their members' standard of living. So far, the social contract has not been tested by any major labor-management dispute. Many are skeptical whether Wilson's policy of persuasion alone could restrain wages if subjected to a series of important contract talks-such as the traditional autumn-round. Any attempt to put teeth into the social contract, however, would almost certainly split the Labor Party. Economist Peter Jay warns that an incomes policy "can be trapped like a billiard ball between its commitment to full employment, to stable prices and to collective bargaining. At that point, governments...
...nola had his own troubles and was busy trying to buttress his position. He could preside, make speeches-but not really rule. When Palma Carlos tried to pressure the Council of State into moving the presidential election up from next year to this autumn, presumably with the expectation that Spínola would be elected President, he was rebuffed. Spínola was accused of trying to gather power in his own hands...
...unjustly collected does not in any way assure investments and social services." Lama warned that the regional work stoppages, along with strikes in services, were not "bonfires of straw that would go out in a few minutes." Labor leaders, for the most part, are willing to wait until autumn to let the government decrees take corrective effect. But they are being pressed by militant workers who resent the taxes and want to fight them with a general strike...
...guiding spirit. Now the state and city fathers, whose liberal subsidies underwrite an international company that is one of Germany's most alluring cultural ornaments, have chosen American Choreographer Glen Tetley to plot new directions toward modern dance. Tetley does not take over as full-time director until autumn, but last weekend he premiered his ballet Gemini with his new company. Judging by the opening night ovations, Stuttgart is delighted with its choice...