Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...financial disclosure of all income, gifts, debts and personal holdings. Strict conflict-of-interest standards would be applied. Restrictions would be placed on the kinds of jobs that people could take when leaving Government. The report urges abolition of "revolving-door arrangements through which company executives, Government regulators and contract negotiators pass freely, changing hats or uniforms as they go, doing damage to public respect for Government...
...past several weeks, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance has proposed major revisions of AA that could abolish AA in many industries and universities. In the proposed revisions, companies with less than 100 employees or $100,000 in contracts (versus 50 employees and $50,000 in contracts) are exempted from filing written AA plans. In addition, any employer receiving less that $10 million in contracts is also exempted from a prior review. This measure lets off the hook all but a half a dozen universities in the country. The campaign against AA, the call for drastic reductions in minority...
Under the force of their own gravity, the great clouds of gas slowly begin to contract, raising the pressures and temperatures at their centers. They have become embryonic stars...
...Contracts. No one knows how such a policy would go down with business and labor. Major contracts covering at least 4.9 million workers either expire or come up for reopening in 1977, giving Carter ample opportunity to jawbone the union leaders who turned out a heavy vote for him, if he wishes. The first big contract, for 37,000 oil, chemical and atomic workers, expires two weeks before Carter takes office. Next comes textiles. Steel follows, but that is expected to be peaceful; an experimental no-strike agreement will govern negotiations. In December comes potential trouble: coal and railroads. United...
...contract with publishers Harper...