Word: basics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is not to say that within the group, the basic unit of College life, there is harmony. The group is the framework for thought and experience, but the members often disagree with each other. A black student told me recently that earlier this year the blacks suffered from strong differences within their ranks. In general, younger blacks wanted to take more radical action against the University, and older ones wanted to cool it, to wait and see if the University would come around to their position on the creation of an Afro-American studies program. But despite the tensions...
...ship's supersecret "research" compartment. His request for either a twin-mount 20-mm. or single-mount 40-mm. cannons to defend his vessel went unheeded by Navy brass. Instead, he was issued two .50-cal. machine guns that would be useless against another ship. The basic problem, said Bucher, was money. The original $5,500,000 allocation for refitting his ship had been slashed...
...overall result, our trade balance has sagged to the vanishing point under the pressure of inflation, and additional controls on American investment were imposed to achieve the balance. We do not plan to rely indefinitely on tight controls or statistical window dressing to disguise but not cure a basic deficit...
...campaigning for the first basic labor reform in 60 years, Mrs. Castle is up against harder foes than pub owners or irate drivers. The problem of overlapping unions-there are 35 in the British auto industry, 16 in steel-leads to endless jurisdictional disputes. It also forces employers to bargain with many competing unions simultaneously and makes industry-wide negotiations almost impossible. Remarkably, unions are not bound by the agreements that they sign, and there are no legal provisions for cooling-off periods or court injunctions to forestall even the most outrageous strikes. As a result, more than...
...Castle's recipe will probably be enacted by Parliament with little change early next year. Politicians realize that most Britons are heartily tired of industrial strife. A poll by the Sunday Times showed that two-thirds of the country's union members also strongly favor basic labor reforms...