Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Concorde means harmony in French. But last week the needle-nosed, Anglo-French supersonic transport was the center of a bitter diplomatic quarrel that could poison transatlantic relations for years. What set off the dispute was the prospect that the Port of New York Authority would finally refuse landing rights for Concorde at New York's Kennedy International Airport. Instead, the Port Authority's eleven commissioners deferred decision for the third time in a year. The postponement followed intense, eleventh-hour lobbying by the governments of France and Britain and threats from unions in those countries of retaliation...
...since the Government collected its jobless figures in mid-month, when layoffs forced by cold weather and energy shortages were at their peak. Instead, the jobless rate was 7.5%, only slightly higher than 7.3% in January-a powerful indication that the economic recovery retained its underlying strength through the bitter winter. About 225,000 workers were laid off in February because of the cold, and another 220,000 were forced onto short weeks. Still, the number of people who do have jobs rose by 400,000; the unemployment rate went up because even more people started looking for work...
...officials show no signs of softening: the leaflet to stockholders asserts that union boycotters are "proving that they will readily sacrifice the interests of the employees ... to increase their own power." On their side, ACTWU officials vow a battle to the death. After 14 years the struggle is more bitter than ever...
Social Contract. But nowhere is the mood so bitter, or the consequences of labor's unrest so ominous, as in Britain. Two years ago, the ruling Labor Party persuaded British trades unions and industry to join a massive campaign to combat runaway inflation (then 26%) and restore the confidence of Britain's foreign creditors. The result was a drastic tightening of the so-called social contract, which held wage increases for all British workers to a flat $10 per week in the first year's Phase 1 and to $7 in Phase 2. The voluntary wage controls...
...Morgan for that. But housewives who struggle every day not just with washing dishes but with maintaining values like loyalty, dedication and caring for others complain that they now get very little help from their surrounding culture. "You're told so often how normal it is to feel bitter and resentful as a wife and mother," says Lois Kholos of Tarzana, Calif., "that if you do enjoy it you somehow feel unusual." "Every issue of Woman's Day and Family Circle, "Tina Klein of Los Angeles points out, "tells stories of women doing things in the outside world...