Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Union, emerged bleary-eyed from behind closed doors at the offices of the Federal Mediation Service. After a tense, all-night bargaining session that capped 17 weeks of talks between the U.S. Postal Service and its 570,000 unionized employees, agreement had been reached on a new three-year contract...
...which the Administration had tirelessly lobbied, is a small but significant departure from those egregious gains. It is also a good deal more moderate than what the postal workers had originally demanded, and could well wind up giving them somewhat lower increases than they enjoyed under their last contract...
...contract provided scheduled wage rises of about 10% over three years, 10% more in cost-of-living increases, and pushed the average pay of postal workers to a level of $7.58 an hour, vs. $5.62 for private nonfarm workers...
...usual, the truth probably lay between the two extremes. Jackson and Martin have had it in for each other since the former signed his tremendous free-agent contract and came to New York last season. It all started long before the infamous Fenway Park incident in which the two went at each other in the dugout after Martin pulled Reggae, admittedly one of the worst gloves in right anyone has ever seen, for dogging it. Reggae certainly upset more than a few Yankees with his proclamations of greatness and heroism; Thurman Munson, the redoubtable catcher-grouch, was not the only...
...reference to his boss's conviction a few years back for illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's wonderfully clean 1972 campaign. It's not nice to call your boss a convict, even if it's true. Martin knew what he was doing, though; there was a clause in his contract forbidding him to insult the owner in public, but Billy went ahead and did it anyway. He wanted...