Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...July international pressure forced Somoza to allow the return of "the Twelve," a group of intellectuals, businessmen and churchmen who had signed a document in Costa Rica calling for the government's ouster. The Catholic hierarchy's call a month later for a pluralistic "national government" to replace Somoza was immediately seconded by every major business organization in the country. The businessmen were worried by Nicaragua's growing fiscal problems, mounting foreign debt and Somoza's proposal for new taxes. Said William Baez, executive secretary of the Nicaraguan Institute of Development: "Somoza foments Communism solely by remaining in power...
...startled minister stated his name. Kenyatta rapped the minister across the ears with his heavy walking stick. "Now," said Kenyatta smiling, "what is your name again?" The minister repeated it. Again the old President struck him hard across the head. "And what do they call you in the street?" the President asked...
...issue holds such potential for further damaging labor's reputation as inflation. Though Meany has called inflation the worst enemy of workers, he has opposed every Administration call for wage restraint, while offering no proposals of his own. Jimmy Carter and his aides are furious because the AFL-CIO would not support the President's bill to put mandatory limits on hospital revenues and thus costs. They argue persuasively that the bill would have benefited the great majority of union members: the higher that hospital bills rise and the more that employers have to pay in medical-insurance premiums...
...restored staff morale, Pan Am's fortunes have improved sharply. Profits reached $45 million last year on revenues of nearly $2 billion, and are piling up at a faster pace so far in 1978. As one sign of its recovery, the company announced last week that it would call in a third of a $75 million bond issue it floated two years ago; this will make it easier to finance a purchase of National, partly because it will trim Pan Am's existing interest obligations...
That is happening in the Jaycees, the big (377,500 members) organization of young (18 to 35) boosters dedicated to community service and what they call "leadership training." Though they began admitting blacks in the 1940s and seeking blue-collar recruits in the 1960s, the Jaycees have always relegated women to non-voting associate memberships or auxiliaries called Jayceettes...