Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bite. Then, early this month, Ford produced a second offer that the union also deemed unpalatable. "We would sit there for hours," reports a U.A.W. negotiator, "and nothing would be happening. We even offered some concessions on minor issues, and they wouldn't bite." Ford made its final proposal the day before the strike deadline. After 90 minutes of pro forma wrangling, it was clear there would be no settlement. The next day, U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock called a strike in time for the evening TV news. "Ford," he declared, "has been unresponsive and unwilling to engage in serious...
...parties differed on other important issues too. The union wanted cash payments to retired workers to ease the bite of recent inflation; the company offered them a dental plan. The U.A.W. asked that cost of living adjustments to wages be sweetened; Ford refused, but offered base-pay raises of up to 82? an hour over the new three-year contract. Said Woodcock, noting Ford's record first-half profits of $785 million: "They were obviously in a strong financial position to meet the proposals we have made...
Rossini's humor was, of course, strictly of the broad variety. Mozart's was something else again. One cherishes the 18th century for The Marriage of Figaro alone. One takes heart in the present, when a work of such bite and compassion can be done as well as it was on the Paris Opéra's first night in New York. Among the many talents at work was the same essential Strehler as in Macbeth-but what a difference! It was as if he had taken his lead from the Figaro overture, that barely perceptible rustle...
...tattered, exhausted survivor who faces the G.O.P. nominee (almost certain to be Incumbent James Buckley) in November. With the primary vote set for next week, the two flamboyant front runners-former United Nations Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 49, and Manhattan Congresswoman Bella Abzug, 56-are providing most of the bite and bile. The three candidates who appear to be lagging-former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, 50, New York City Council President Paul O'Dwyer, 69, and Builder Abraham Hirschfeld, 58-are running less cantankerous campaigns. Moynihan and Abzug, complains O'Dwyer, are leaving "scar tissue all over...
...Peter's direction, but an involved tax situation held down the family's share of its earnings. In 1972, for instance, Krug earned $1.9 million pretax, but the family partnership netted only $332,525 of that. Peter proposed forming a new partnership that would ease the tax bite-and, not incidentally, reduce Robert's share to 10%. Robert refused to join, so the other Mondavis went ahead without him. Robert promptly sued, contending that his brother, with support from his mother and sisters, was scheming to cut him off from his share of the family...