Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lines, over the conference table with intransigent growers, and in the day-to-day scramble to survive. Yet those of us who assumed the strike had been won are needed again. The great majority of people who pick the food for our tables are still unprotected by a union contract, still subjected to brutal work conditions in order to feed their children who more often than not have to work in the fields as well. While the political strategy of the growers has grown more sophisticated over the years, farmworkers continue to be subjected to feudal work practices...
...that someone else charges on a lost or stolen card. If a merchant or lender turns down an application for credit, he must say why. People may not be denied credit because of sex, race or national origin. A bank, finance company or other lender that buys an installment contract from a merchant-in legal parlance, a "holder in due course"-may not demand payment for defective goods that the merchant refuses to repair or replace...
...those checks will keep coming. Responding to that anxiety, union leaders are putting job security high on their bargaining agenda-and last week I.W. Abel, president of the United Steelworkers, decided to go all the way. At Washington's Shoreham Americana Hotel, he opened his last round of contract talks in basic steel (he is 68 and will retire in June). As militant Steelworkers, fearful of a sellout to the industry, picketed outside, Abel announced that the union's goal will be nothing less than lifetime security. His definition: "A job for life; a decent, respectable income...
...work it out. It's the same thing here." But there is no hiding the fact that the Pistons are hardly the Waltons. General Manager Feldman acknowledged as much at the end of January, when he announced a moratorium on disharmony, adding that Brown would be offered a contract for next season and that no trades-requested or not-would be made. Feldman followed his ultimatum by inviting Porter and Brown to breakfast. On the menu: bagels, Nova Scotia salmon and soft soap. Bagel diplomacy seems to have worked, but the rest of the league may live to regret...
...twelve murders sprang from some aspect of the oppression of women. Euphemie Lacoste, victim of an arranged marriage, was accused of poisoning her husband in 1844. While the bourgeoisie in the reign of Louis Philippe prattled of love matches, Euphemie's father signed a marriage contract for his convent-bred 22-year-old daughter. The husband was Henri Lacoste, the girl's 68-year-old great-uncle, who was riddled with syphilis...