Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University and the Harvard Police Association are near agreement on a final settlement of their six-month-old contract dispute, the president of the union said yesterday...
...current union contract expired January 1, but both sides later agreed to an extension that will expire July 5. Powers said that if the two sides do not reach an agreement by then, bargaining will probably continue...
...together. He has been a poor administrator who has lost most of the union's once sharp staff. One example: Press Aide Bernard Aronson was fired for "insubordination"; Aronson is now Vice President Walter Mondale's chief speechwriter. Miller apparently won reelection because he wangled a national contract in 1974 giving miners a 54% raise over three years. When that contract expires Dec. 6, many miners hope he will score as well or even better...
...Miller is now in a much more difficult situation. Coal operators are angry because he is unwilling to curb wildcat strikes, which have increased to near-epidemic proportions in the Eastern fields. Miller has stated that he will insist on contract revisions that would give U.M.W. locals the right to strike over grievances. Miller also says he wants another big increase for the miners, but he will find the operators tight fisted. Last time around, the mineowners realized that they owed the workers a big raise to let them catch up with other unions. Now that U.M.W. wages and allowances...
...early 1945, as Russian armies approached Peenemünde, Von Braun and many of his staff fled to Bavaria and surrendered to U.S. troops. The Americans recognized the value of their prisoner. Within a few months, he was working under contract to the U.S. Army at the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico. By 1950, he was placed in charge of guided missile development at the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Ala. In 1960, Von Braun, who had since become an American citizen, was named director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville and charged with building...