Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most symbolically important contest had yet to be decided. Chavez and his supporters have been boycotting the wines of the E. & J. Gallo Winery -California's largest producer-since 1973, when Gallo officials declined to renew their contract with the U.F.W. and instead signed with the Teamsters. At that time, workers did not vote their own preference for which union would represent them. The growers negotiated directly with the union heads. Last week 233 Gallo grape pickers voted to stick with the Teamsters, while 131 chose the U.F.W. But both unions challenged 198 ballots-throwing the outcome in doubt...
...three years they worked this joint and that in Edinburgh for at most $55 a night. Then one day in 1970 a record-company executive missed his flight back to London and dropped in at the Caves Club. The Rollers were playing. Almost immediately, the Rollers had a contract, and began turning out such British top-ten hits as Remember, Shang-a-Lang and All of Me Loves...
Applicants for a personal loan from New York's First National City Bank have something of a shock in store: the new standard loan contract is written in language they can easily understand. The simple one-page document-one-third as long as its predecessor-spells out the bank's and borrower's obligations in relaxed you and I terms with nary a hereinafter to get in the way. And Citibank is not alone (see box). Anxious to stimulate business, banks and insurance companies alike are hastening to switch from the old long-winded fine print...
...simple and readily understood." Linguist Flesch cautions that most of the rewrites do not yet rate a 60 on his scale-the level, he says, of the New York Daily News or SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. But be it hereinafter understood that whereas the aforementioned and previously established methodology of contract composition has been adjudged dull and devoid of intelligibility, companies that fail to adjust do so at their own risk...
...sued the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the locals, all of which had signed a no-strike agreement, and three judges of the Third Circuit unanimously held them all liable, even though they were not involved in starting the strike. The court's message was clear: when a contract contains a no-strike clause, a union must take every measure reasonably possible to pressure strikers back to work...