Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UMWA deserves your support because they are right. Dead right. This strike isn't about demands for outlandish salaries or featherbedded work rules. The miners on the pickets of Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky are struggling over the basic dignities that American workers can reasonably expect--the right to bargain collectively in good faith, the right to a contract and the right to health benefits for retirees, disabled workers and surviving spouses...
...COUNTRY. A Viet Nam vet (Bruce Willis) reconciles himself to his niece (radiant Emily Lloyd) and his country. Sounds like your basic TV movie, sunk by noble intentions. But here well meaning translates into well done...
...Texas decision, which affects the nation's second largest school system after California, is sure to breathe new life into the struggle for more uniform school financing around the country. But by calling for a basic shift in the way schools operate, the court changed the terms of the debate, emphasizing that inequities in funding are linked to inequities in the quality of education...
Discussion went up the line to the President's top advisers. By Sunday night, according to a senior Defense Department official, "the basic conclusion was that if ((Giroldi)) was going to do it, he would have to do it largely alone." At 2:30 a.m. Monday, Powell was awakened by a phone call from a U.S. military officer in Panama. The rebel soldiers, Powell was told, wanted Southcom to assist the uprising by blocking two access roads near Fort Amador and the Bridge of the Americas, but otherwise wanted no U.S. involvement that might discredit them. Through Monday, as they...
Stung by this summer's loss of more than $3 million in state aid, Cambridge may be unable to raise sufficient funds to maintain basic city services without steep tax hikes, city officials said last week...