Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Break for the Taxpayer As a lifelong resident of the Great Lakes area, I was particularly interested in your American Scene article on the Coast Guard icebreaker Mackinaw's ef forts for U.S. Steel [March 19]. Local newspapers frequently carry stories about how this or that Great Lakes freighter got trapped in the ice trying to make "one last run" before the winter freeze set in. Of course, a Coast Guard cutter always rushes to the rescue, fueled by taxpayers' dollars...
...Teamsters settlement is all but certain to break the wage standard despite vigorous efforts by the Administration to force restraint. Last week bargaining resumed briefly only to be broken off again. When the talks first collapsed, April 1, the drivers were demanding an increase of 32% over three years. Though that would be well above the compounded guideline level of 22.5%, the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS) seemed ready to exclude some benefit gains and pronounce an even 30% settlement to be within the standards...
...airlines. It also has strong prospects for further buys from carriers that are not now customers, including Air Afrique, Britain's Laker Airways and Japan's domestic TOA. Lathière insists that present customers alone assure the consortium of the 360 sales it needs to break even on the A300, the 251-to 336-seat prime Airbus model...
When it comes to saving money, affluent people get a break. Those who put $10,000 or more into six-month money market certificates can collect interest at roughly 9.5%, while small savers are limited by law to earning only 5% from commercial banks and 5.25% from savings institutions on their passbook accounts. Last week federal banking authorities proposed new measures to redress this imbalance and encourage saving...
...final destination she finds not an old flame (he has been killed in Viet Nam) but his almost psychotic younger brother (Keith Carradine), who has taken the blame for his brother's death on himself. Diane lures him into a sexual relationship that is enough to break his tenuous hold on sanity. It also seems to purge the last of her anguish and she returns home to find Jordan (and mental health) awaiting...