Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...muscle," Lindsay fought back as best he could with legal action and calls for unity. He was determined to bring order into the city's chaotic labor relations and to counter the threat of public strikes that, though banned by state law, have been used to win fat contract settlements. "Now is the time and here is the place," he declared, "for the city to determine what it is made...
...presidential candidate, he was loath to become a strikebreaking Governor (though such stern action would probably have helped among conservatives, who most distrust him). There were also material arguments against calling out the Guard: the cost to the city would have been far more than a contract settlement; the troops' effectiveness would have been limited by lack of training; and most persuasive, the city's million-member Central Labor Council might have called a general strike...
...exchange for the $425 pay raise that Lindsay had earlier rejected. The city would either agree to pay it or the state, by means of a special measure that Rockefeller will request of the legislature this week, would assume temporary control of the Sanitation Department and fulfill the new contract terms-with city funds...
...powerless chairmanship (TIME, Dec. 15). But when he was eased out altogether two weeks ago, Harper was not exactly out of pocket. Interpublic was reported to have bought back his 100,000 shares in the company, worth $2,200,000 at book value. Harper also had an employment contract that guaranteed his salary ($250,000 last year) and a percentage of profits until 1985. Because Interpublic's bankers were leery of making any refinancing plans until that contract was settled, it has been the subject of hard negotiations...
Aspiring Updikes. On the strength of his first prize in the current festival, U.C.L.A.'s Lucas has been given a contract to expand THX into a full-length film under the guidance of Warners-Seven Arts Producer Francis Ford Coppola (You're a Big Boy Now), who graduated from U.C.L.A. in 1967. That kind of instant success is the exception. The rule is instant obscurity. A case in point is Marty Scorsese, 25, an N.Y.U. film-school graduate whose It's Not Just You, Murray won a first prize at the 1965 student festival-and might just...