Word: broads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale officials insist they must keep the option of hiring more part-timers, to provide the most efficient services. Although the union has asked for a number of broad assurances that Yale will not continue to cut down on its full-time employees, the university has offered only a guarantee that it will not reduce the work-hours of current full-timers--unless there is a major change such as "reduction or discontinuation of services or a technological change." And to union members, that caveat threatens their job security...
...rule in years. As The New York Times put it, "This may be the twilight of the Somozas." Political agitation culminated last month with the FSLN's military offensive and heavy fighting in the capital and other areas of the nation. In the wake of these attacks, a broad spectrum of Nicaragua's political forces have stepped up their demand for Somoza's ouster and for the recognition of the FSLN as a legitimate political organization in its own right...
...FSLN is now making a bid for broad national and international support while escalating the military pressure in the regime. Spokesmen for the front have issued a call for Somoza's immmediate ouster and for free elections to be held, by a provisional government in which the FSLN would be represented. The demands of the Sandinistas include sweeping reform of the agrarian structure, nationalization of the banking sector, concentration of social welfare programs and education in particular, the establishment of diplomatic relations with socialist countries, and the expropriation of Somoza's massive business empire...
While inspecting an honor guard of lancers, he suddenly glanced to his left, broke into a broad grin and roared: "Barbara, so you did come." He stretched out his hand to greet Barbara Walters of ABC. A moment later, he was shouting "Walter!" and pumping the hand of CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite, whose double interview with Sadat and Begin had set the stage for the visit. Sadat clearly enjoyed the company of these media celebrities. Aboard the plane, he tweaked Walters about her much-publicized ABC contract: "Barbara, you make a million dollars a year, and my salary is only...
...time adopting the credits. The Senate added so many more exemptions that much of industry would be excluded. At the same time, it increased the changeover credits to 25%. The conference committee decided on a middle course, leaving in many of the loopholes but giving the Department of Energy broad discretion to decide which companies should be granted exemptions...