Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, too, no one in Oceana thought the contract was really a good one. The majority who voted to accept it did so mainly on complicated tactical grounds. They feared that failure to accept could lead to the breakdown of their union, the end of nationwide bargaining and thus the loss of their hard-won retirement benefits. The local has 300 retirees, who have not received a pension check since January because the old retirement fund is broke; the contract would have set up a new fund. "We felt that a contract would give some guaranteed protection to the retirees...
...those five principles, the country stands firm and united, even if the price is the breakdown of the peace talks. To outsiders, such a position may seem shortsighted and intransigent. To siege-minded Israelis it comes as second nature, and of all the 3.1 million Jews in Israel, that attitude is best exemplified by Menachem Begin...
...problem of an economic failure and its disastrous human consequences will remain. The reversal of this economic failure, and of its dehumanizing consequences remains the real problem for Britain. Ultimately, it will only be resolved through the supersession of the cyclical capitalist economy, which recurrently exposes society to economic breakdown, and concurrently exposes it to the fascist threat...
Today's issue of The Crimson has a different look. A breakdown in our typesetting equipment forced us to set much of today's copy on The Independent's equipment, and to cut back the issue to four pages. We'd like to thank The Independent for all its help and to add that The Crimson will be back to normal as soon as possible...
...days of behind-the-scenes negotiations, conducted principally by Alfred ("Roy") Atherton, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, it appeared that there were a few more reels to go-and that the action-packed drama might still have a happy ending. Following the breakdown n the political talks, President Carter had urged Sadat not to cancel the military talks, which were then in recess. Sadat agreed not to do so, though Premier Menachem Begin had announced that he would not be sending his delegates back to he Cairo talks. The Egyptian President also said...