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Convictions of Righteousness. The auto talks threaten to take on a special bitterness because in 1970, more than ever, both sides are convinced that they are in the right. Industry leaders correctly contend that hourly wage increases in the auto plants have been far outrunning gains in productivity. They sense that this is the year to take the union to the mat and gain more control over labor costs, quality control and discipline on the production lines-even if it takes a long strike. They feel that public worry about inflation and the Nixon Administration's pledge to keep...
...year ago. Beyond that, Woodcock still wants an additional 26? an hour that U.A.W. men already would have got if Reuther had not agreed in 1967 to put a limit of 8? an hour on annual cost-of-living increases. The companies have promised to pay the 26?, but contend that it should be counted as part of a new contract package; Woodcock insists that it be granted separately and that all limits on cost-of-living raises be removed in the new pacts. The 26?, added to an 8% basic raise, would put the first-year increase...
...result, the role of Commander in Chief has very nearly become a doctrine distinct from the other powers of the presidency. Many scholars contend that the Commander in Chief was never meant to have so broad a charter. The drafters of the Constitution gave the President that title to ensure civilian control over the military, and to allow him to respond immediately to a sudden, direct attack upon the U.S. Any protracted conflict was to be authorized by a congressional declaration...
Such changes, the reformers contend, are consistent with early Christian practice, which tolerated irregularities in the community on the presumption that Christians were working toward perfection but had not achieved it. Moreover, the traditional definition of what kind of marriage is "sacramental," and thus indissoluble, is also being questioned. Recent Catholic theology has begun to suggest that sacramental marriage is not something achieved judicially, by a marriage ceremony and physical consummation, but grown into through a long process of living, and lov-'ng, together...
Although school officials contend that the school takes no part in the program, leaving it up to the family doctor, some teachers have been selecting the members of their classes whom they want to take the drugs and then urging parents to obtain them...