Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Essentially, the Yankees won by default this year. The Red Sox and the Orioles were plagued with contract problems and never really got started. And the Royals might have won except for a bad call in the ninth inning of the last game. But for the sake of purity, the Reds must stem the unpure tide from the Bronx. I predict that the series will go no less than four game, nor more than seven. And the Reds are going to win most of the games...
...illegal tactics to break the strike, the company tried last summer to deny to workers vacation pay earned before the strike began. Only imminent legal action against the company moved Cambion to pay the wages after a delay of 2 1/2 months. Throughout the strike the only contract offer by Cambion has been the one made the night before the strike began. The company has refused to bargain, despite the union's willingness to alter its proposals and to submit to binding arbitration...
...this industry if the strike is broken. Natonally, union organizing has been sluggish. Other electronic firms and their employees are watching the Cambion strike closely. The relatively new industry, with its low wage levels is almost entirely non-union. If UE Local 262 succeeds in negotiating a fair contract, fellow employees in the industry will be encouraged to organize, and management will be far more likely to cooperate. But if the strike is broken, unionizing will suffer...
...first democratic social contract of the New World was drawn up in Philadelphia. Equality before the law, political democracy, federalism - in short, the example set by a society organized on a basis of respect for the dignity of men and of limitation of government powers established by law - inspired independence movements and the formation of new nations throughout the Americas...
...Trilling called it censorship; Lillian Hellman called it "unpleasant business." But to some, last week's go around had the look of a literary row par excellence. The clawing began when Essayist Trilling, 71, widow of Critic Lionel Trilling, disclosed that Little, Brown & Co. had canceled her book contract. The reason, said a representative of the publisher, was "unpleasantly personal attacks" on Playwright Hellman, 69, a longtime Little, Brown writer and author of the current bestseller Scoundrel Time. Hellman had stood firm in the face of a congressional inquisition during the Joseph McCarthy era, and in her book...