Word: balk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airline. Eastern, moved a step toward settling its five-week-old walkout, which costs it $1,300,000 a day. Its striking machinists voted to accept a three-year package that brings top pay to $2.95 an hour. Eastern is still negotiating with its engineers, who balk at company orders that they must take pilot training to fly on jets...
...blacksmithing and harness-making are the only approved ways of earning a living. Parents refuse to send their children to public schools beyond the eighth grade-a quirk that has got the Amish into trouble with state and county authorities (TIME, March 24). The strictest members of the sect balk at social security levies on the grounds that I Timothy 5:8 and other Bible passages command them to take care of their own. And they do: records in Wayne and Holmes counties show not a single case of an Amishman seeking public assistance of any kind...
...estimated 5,000,000 hunting dogs that will be roaming the autumn landscape, only a small percentage are formally registered by their owners, many of whom balk at the expense and bother. But the vast majority are purebred nonetheless and, as many a fond owner will testify, prove just as efficient in the field as those whose ancestry is a matter of record...
Better Ballpoint. Paper Mate brought out a ballpoint pen which writes easily on grease-smeared paper or slick surfaces that usually balk ballpoints. The pen has a new ink containing a detergent that cleanses the writing surface. Price...
Postage & Privies. The new budget proposes only two big cuts, and Congress may well balk at both of them: hacking the Post Office deficit a hefty $700 million by upping postal rates (e.g., first-class letter postage from 3? to 5?), and chopping Commodity Credit Corporation costs nearly $400 million, mainly by lowering agricultural price supports. The rest of the budget's civil sector, far from shrinking, actually looms some $600 million bigger than in 1958. The thinning of some welfare programs, e.g., privies on Indian reservations and aid to states for education of retarded children, is more than...