Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward Childs, chairman of the dining hall workers' Health and Safety Committee, said yesterday he is very concerned that food service workers who contract the infection may pass it along to their children, who are more susceptible to salmonella...
...parole last spring from an earlier 15-year narcotics sentence on the unassailable grounds that he had been "associating with known criminals." At Dellacroce's urging, the Mafia commission in September not only decreed that Galante no longer headed the Bonanno family but let out a contract on his life...
Meanwhile, Dellacroce dispatched hit teams of his own toward Danbury. Federal officials learned about them from wiretaps that revealed talk among mobsters about the contract on Galante. Belatedly, Morris Kuznesof, chief federal probation officer in Manhattan, wrote Danbury Warden Raymond Nelson that he had received information "from a highly reliable source that an attempt to murder Mr. Galante will be made at your institution." Nelson slapped Galante into solitary confinement "for his own protection." But Lillo apparently prefers to rely on his own security arrangements, without the feds' help. Contending the plots to kill him were fictitious and that...
...Pressmen's Union, which walked off the job Aug. 9 after the publishers posted new work rules, agreed to accept a six-year contract that will give members an 18% raise over the first three years (amounting to $68 per worker per week), guarantee jobs for all 1,508 regular members and reduce manning levels through attrition. Ten other unions idled by the strike were expected to return to work as well. Indeed, a major breakthrough in the talks came last week when heads of the other unions gathered to hear a report on the status of negotiations from...
...personal status needs; today that process is being depersonalized. The new services decide how they'll clean the house. As professionals, they don't have to listen to the housewife's way of doing things. It's more businesslike-they simply make a contract for a certain job to be done...