Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commissioner James Cross and murdered Québec's Labor Minister Pierre Laporte. According to evidence now be ing heard by a Québec government inquiry, the Mounties were determined not to be caught short again. Among other things, an elite Mountie dirty tricks squad staged a break-in at a leftist Montreal news agency, and stole dynamite from a construction firm, apparently to convey the impression that terrorists were again running amuck...
...nearly all of the major examples of early Irish art that have remained in Irish collections, a loan of unparalleled generosity. Its only fault, a too common one at the Metropolitan, is the installation-a gross Tiffany-in-Vegas effort, with each item so harshly spotlit that exaggerated shadows break up the intricate gold surfaces, eliding the exquisitely delicate transitions of depth and texture which were the very essence of the Celtic jewelers' art. Everything looks as if it were for sale...
...reason for its troubles. Its crazy-quilt wage bargaining structure forces management to deal with 58 different bargaining units at its 34 plants; executives are involved in some kind of labor negotiation for nearly nine months of every year. Strikes, many prompted by wage differentials from plant to plant, break out frequently, with or without union authorization. In the first six months of this year, Leyland lost 9.3 million man-hours and production of about 120,000 cars because of strikes, v. losses of 2.3 million man-hours and 50,000 unbuilt autos in the 1976 period...
Faced with so grim a diagnosis, Graham made a decision. She would try to break through the barrier of silence that all too often shrouds terminal illness. Before the end, she explains, "I want to do something that matters." So she approached the incoming Daily News managing editor, Gregory Favre, with the novel idea of writing a column about cancer-and death-from a patient's point of view. He promptly accepted the suggestion. Says he: "She is a talented writer with great sensitivity. There is a need for this type of thing." Readers apparently agree. Each...
...worried at the half," Coach George Ford said after the game. "We let them get into the game," in the last 20 minutes of the first half after Martin's goals. Ford added, however, "We went back to the wings," after the break...