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...joined Irvine as planning manager in 1960, admits that he feels "apprehensive" about the impending takeover. One danger is that a new owner may order a sudden speedup in Irvine's growth in order to increase its profits; that could expose the company to the same boom-and-bust cycle that bedevils other developers...
...secondary boycotts at farms where a union has won an election but has not been able to reach a contract agreement with the employer. The state law also created a state board to supervise secret-ballot elections, allows currently employed workers to petition for a decertification election that could bust a union and nullify existing contracts, and gives striking workers the right to vote in union certification elections...
Clearly, the bonanza had turned into something of a bust for the Pentagon. The once legendary MiG-25 no longer provided so strong an argument for obtaining more appropriations for the U.S. fighter fleet. Michigan Democrat Robert Carr, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, declared that "as a demonstration of technology [the MiG-25] calls into serious question the Pentagon claims of mushrooming Soviet military gains...
...industry after World War II should have served as a warning. Railroads and ships switched to diesel. Homeowners converted their furnaces to natural gas or fuel oil. Mines closed, and those that stayed open watched the price of their coal drop to $2.95 per ton. But who remembers the bust now that the boom is back? Today coal supplies one-fifth of the nation's total energy requirements. This elementary fact, says Caudill, permitted mineowners to run up the price from $9 to $35 per ton in 50 days after the Arab oil boycotts. He thinks it has also...
...shot actually had to be fired. On the first and biggest day of the bust, agents scooped up suspects at their homes, offices or hangouts in 19 states. The only incident occurred in Kansas City, where one accused dealer slammed into an officer's car in a futile escape attempt. Some of the arrestees lived well indeed. In one $330,000 Beverly Hills home (which was complete with $25,000 Jaguar, $40,000 Rolls-Royce and swimming pool), agents found $125,000 in cash-testimony to the enormous profits of the drug trade...