Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston's insatiable hockey fans it was a slick-and dirty-trick. Bobby Orr, 28, their defenseman without equal in the history of the game, was skating off to become a Chicago Black Hawk. What would make beloved Bobby leave the Bruins? A reported fiveyear, $3 million contract. What would enable all Boston to blink back the tears? The knowledge that Orr's rickety left knee (five operations in the past eight years) allowed him to play only ten games last season. But at week's end Orr checked out of a Toronto hospital, where doctors examined...
Denial of Rights. The case at hand is whether black parents are denied the right to make a contract, as defined by the 13th Amendment, by the policies of the schools. The Justice Department, in a brief filed by Solicitor General Robert Bork, argues in support of the decisions of the lower courts that such a denial of rights has occurred. As Appeals Court Chief Judge Clement Haynsworth Jr. wrote in one of those decisions, the law "is a limitation upon private discrimination, and its enforcement ... is not a deprivation of any right of free association or privacy...
...were predictable--all the workers who participated were punished with warning slips on their records, and three shop stewards were suspended. No effort was made to initiate a dialogue between the University and the workers to resolve the problems which led to the walkout. Instead, with the union's contract negotiations set to begin on the same day on which the suspensions were announced, the University resorted to the very "confrontation" politics which it so often accuses the Union of employing...
...kitchen workers' contract will expire on June 30, and Harvard will soon force many workers to survive on part-time wages over the summer. Thus, Harvard's attack on Gallagher, Balsam and Schaffer makes their strategy clear: crush all signs of militancy before the further aggravations of an insulting contract offer and a drastic reduction in income blow them into strike proportions, while purging the local of its leadership before contract negotations begin. As students depart for the summer, Harvard's anti-labor fist is poised for a decisive blow, and timed to provoke a minimum of public outcry...
...called a strike against Time Inc., the first in the company's 54-year history. During negotiations Time Inc. had already reached agreement with the Guild on many benefits and improvements, but several major issues remain in dispute. The company regrets the strike action because it considered its contract proposals fair and generous. Throughout the strike, Time Inc will continue to publish, on the usual schedule, all its magazines-TIME, FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, PEOPLE, MONEY -as well as TIME-LIFE Books...