Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent a year at the Cornell School of Agriculture, sandwiched between two summers working on farms in Pennsylvania and upper New York state. He became disillusioned, however, when he discovered that farming was really big business. Dairy farming involved buying a lot of equipment, and for that you needed capital. He was also having trouble understanding his teachers because, he says, they talked too fast for his limited English comprehension...
Therefore, "given the system as it exists, criminal trespass was not an inappropriate charge. But criminal law needs to be reformed. It really needs to be reformed more than any other body of law today. The criminal process is not intended to look a the big picture. It distorts reality by focusing on a small corner. It therefore works badly in these political-legal cases because it doesn't permit taking into account the motivations of the actors in the drama." But once again, Flym the political idealist clashes with Flym the hard-nosed lawyer. "I guess it would...
...lies in the area of conglomerate mergers. He charges that his Democratic predecessors, by taking the position that mergers of companies in unrelated businesses were not subject to existing antitrust law, "let the merger movement get clear out of hand." In rapid succession, he has announced actions against three big conglomerates. His trustbusters are contesting Ling-Temco-Vought's takeover of Jones & Laughlin Steel; ITT's acquisition of Canteen Corp. and Northwest Industries' attempt to buy up B. F. Goodrich. Such mergers, McLaren says, are forcing "a radical restructuring" of the economy. The restructuring that...
Widening Gap. Including fringe benefits, the average union construction worker now gets paid $5.91 an hour; in big cities he makes more. Philadelphia carpenters recently won a 23% pay increase, to $6.85 per hour, to be followed by a further 21% raise next year. Omaha roofers will get a 57% increase over the next two years, and Miami laborers will get a 70% boost over three years. The widening gap between wage rates in construction and manufacturing increases the chances of industrial strikes. Last year construction wage settlements were more than 31 times higher than those in oil, trucking...
...that many people who are eager enough to go out to play some semi-organized sport. Mike Sherman, athletic secretary of champion Greenough, suggested that proctors ought to show more concern with the program and encourage people to participate, as well as helping out the athletic secretaries. A big factor, Sherman said, was the persistence of the athletic secretary. In Sherman's case, this persistence borders on fanaticism, and a colleague of his called him "the Vince Lombardi of freshman intramurals." Way to go, Mike...