Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...labor unions have been dwindling in recent years in both membership and political clout. But they mustered all the lobbying power they could behind the Labor Reform Act of 1978. Pressured by AFL-CIO Boss George Meany, President Carter gave the bill forceful, if not all-out, support. But businessmen, large and small, rallied strong opposition, arguing that the bill would put them at a disadvantage with Big Labor and lead to a wave of organizing, particularly in the South, where unions have been weak. Last week, after the bill had been stalled for 19 days by a filibuster, labor...
During the fight, the Senators were inundated by millions of letters, postcards and phone calls from both sides. Teams of labor lobbyists roamed the Capitol Hill corridors. Business supporters papered the Hill with statements, studies, polls and visits from small businessmen...
...hours a week running an FM radio station in Gloucester, Mass., spinning the records, answering the phone, writing the ads, maintaining the transmitter-all by himself. His annual earnings from the station have never topped $5,000. Last year a group of local businessmen and politicians asked the Federal Communications Commission to transfer Geller's license to them, claiming that his all-classical-music format was "not responsive to the needs of the community." They proposed to replace it with dinner music and public service programs...
...arrangements, the great soccer carnival was run with efficiency, and the prevailing mood was one of warm hospitality. A foreigner walking through the swarming center of Buenos Aires was in danger of being danced with, and no visitor could escape being asked by young schoolgirls or dignified businessmen to predict Argentina's victory in the final...
Four prominent male businessmen and one lawyer assumed positions on the Board of Overseers on June 6, fulfilling the University's announced intention of increasing the representation of members of the financial community on the larger of Harvard's two governing boards...