Word: bustings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wage Restraint. The 11 million members of the T.U.C.'s constituent unions will vote next week to ratify or reject that agreement and, as Healey bluntly put it, more severe welfare cuts than he has already planned could "bust the relationship between the unions and the government." With minimal fanfare, in order to avoid upsetting the unions, the government has already put a tighter rein on municipal welfare spending, cut a scheduled pension raise by one-third, and indefinitely postponed a new child-benefit scheme. But Healey turned aside demands from the opposition Conservatives for more sweeping cutbacks with...
Even by the standards of the often rowdy commodities market, the potato bust was bizarre. It resulted in 50 million Ibs. of potatoes, worth $4.2 million, not being delivered on schedule, sending almost 1,000 potato-futures contracts into default. That in turn promised to touch off scores of lawsuits and an investigation by Government regulators...
...have been judged to be as pernicious as they are pleasurable. Now the boom has fallen on the economic boom. Time was when the word connoted something unqualifiedly positive, as in "booming industry" and "boom times." But because a boom all too often leads to inflation and then to bust, Data Resources Inc., an economic consulting firm in Massachusetts, has set up a "DRI Boom Monitor" to alert subscribers when a healthy recovery shows signs of turning into an unsustainable boom...
...coal company was handing out statements by our own leaders saying the union is going bust...
...thing." But only the chorus lyrics are enunciated clearly as Keith Richard, Billy Preston and the new Stone Ron Wood (though he only plays on two cuts) form a tight backup group to sing out the threat: "Cause if you really think you can push it/ I'm gonna bust your knees with a bullet." Some of the lyrics may be swallowed up, but what you can hear is more than enough to set your imagination running. Keith Richard closes out the song and the album with a satisfying run of ascending and descending guitar...