Word: breaking
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Given Steven's past history and its refusal last week to admit that it has ever broken the law in the past, its promise not to break the law in the future has little credibility. In the past fifteen years Stevens has calculated that it is more profitable to systematically undermine unionization efforts and to pay over one million dollars in fines, (clearly a very low price for maintaining inadequate working conditions and low wages and pension payments), than to allow the workers to democratically decide whether they want to be represented by the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers union...
...most important defect in the employment practice argument is simply numerical. U.S. companies employ less than one half of one per cent of all black South African workers, and although we have repeatedly asked the Corporation to explain how improvement of working conditions for these few will break down apartheid, we have yet to receive a credible answer. The Corporation says only that the companies may "lead by example" --an answer that totally ignores the understandable reluctance of employers to increase wages for altruistic reasons...
...McKenzie, 24. Soloist, Jeffrey Ballet. Unlike most young male dancers, the tall (6 ft. 1 in.), lanky McKenzie started out with a fluid, adagio style, which usually comes only after long experience. His languid grace reflects an easygoing personality: "If dancing becomes so serious that it can make or break my psyche, then it's no more fun." He literally stumbled into ballet. Coaxed by a third-grade classmate into a tap class, he found he could not keep his balance; his father, a Vermont meat-packing company owner, suggested that he try ballet as a remedy. Even after...
Clifford got a break when Shepard's shot sneaked through a hole in the fence, making it a ground-rule double and preventing the run from scoring. Second baseman Halas then saved at least one run with a diving stab of a line drive for the rally-killing third...
...Crimson's Will Chang tallied Harvard's points on a 30-yard penalty kick with three minutes remaining in the contest, and though Harvard was within a converted try of victory they couldn't break through Dartmouth's defense...