Word: contraction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...elimination of the stress test is another welcomed "correction" of Chafin's new administration. The union vigorously opposed the implementation of the test, which registers physical reactions under artifical stress, during the contract negotiations last fall. HPA negotiators faulted the test for its rigidity: the patrolmen argued that the test exaggerates every small physical problem, and might be used as an excuse for disqualifying basically fit patrolmen from active duty. Harvard included the test in the contract but agreed to delay implementation until July 1979. Chafin says, however, that it will not be implemented...
Just a month ago, when a similar threat loomed, the Administration applied intense pressure and the problem seemed settled. After 17 weeks of talks, negotiators for the U.S. Postal Service and three postal unions announced tentative agreement on a new three-year contract. The two key compromises: the Postal Service abandoned its effort to abolish a contract's ban on layoffs; the unions accepted relatively moderate pay and cost-of-living increases of 19.5% stretched over three years. It was the only major union contract this year to be settled on such mild terms, and Administration officials hailed...
...Service responded by firing 100 workers. The militants refused to back down. Two weeks ago, at the Denver convention of the American Postal Workers Union, rebel delegates burst forth in a rancorous demonstration against their own leaders. The dissidents had powerful support: AFL-CIO President George Meany denounced the contract as "disappointing...
Last week it was time to count the votes. The three main unions?the A.P.W.U., the National Association of Letter Carriers, and the Mail Handlers division of the Laborers' International Union, which together represent 497,000 of the 554,000 postal employees?rejected the contract by a close but decisive margin of 5 to 4. That same vote authorized two of the union leaders to call a strike within five days?illegal though it would be?unless the Postal Service agreed to new negotiations. Postmaster General William F. Bolger rejected the bid. The Postal Service then went to court...
Using Einstein's equations, astronomers determined that after all of the nuclear fuel is consumed, gravity eventually would cause the star to contract into a white dwarf, a sphere only about as big as the earth but so dense that each cubic centimeter would weigh a ton. Their calculations finally made sense of a dim companion of the star Sirius that was first observed in the 1860s and had puzzled astronomers for decades. Though the star was apparently small, it exerted an inexplicably great gravitational pull on Sirius. The dense little companion?like others that have been observed since?...