Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother sounds a note of caution in the impassioned duet, Bide Thee, Bubbles, in Brooklyn, but Beverly exits, resolutely waving her contract and singing Addio, West Side Subway...
When newly sworn Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas wrote his first dissent at the end of 1965, the issue involved a minor dispute over a Small Business Administration contract. With characteristic energy, Fortas prepared a meticulously reasoned draft. When it was circulated among his colleagues, two members of the five-man majority found it so persuasive that their view shifted. Fortas' dissent became the majority opinion...
...annual 31% increase. Businessmen, however, are constantly tempted to raise consumer prices by an extra dollop, using as their understandable excuse the fact that devaluation brought on an automatic increase in the cost of imported raw materials. On their side, unions are girding for a series of major contract negotiations this summer and autumn with wage-rise demands totaling more than a billion dollars. Among the demands: 3,000,000 heavy-machinery workers asking a 10% increase; 1,250,000 construction men seeking 15%, and 750,000 retail-distribution employees demanding 10%. To head off such damaging boosts, Wilson last...
Harvard captain Carter Lord expressed his pleasure at the Committee's decision yesterday and revealed that he had almost forfeited his chance to play. "The pro football Dallas Cowboys were ready to send a contract down here for me to sign after we beat Yale," said Lord, the greatest end in Harvard history, "but fortunately I headed them off in time...
...remembered for a paralyzing strike during the Korean War; in Minneapolis. "We've won a tremendous victory," crowed Kennedy, whose call for a national strike in 1950 prompted the Government to take over the roads. Finally, in May 1951, the railroads threw in the towel, signed a contract giving Kennedy's men a $97 million-a-year wage increase...