Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shies away from discussing a skirmish between kitchen employees and the University a few years ago, and she quickly asserts that the incident was just a little misunderstanding that had been all straightened out. On the other hand, John says, "we can't strike. It's not in the contract. We had a big argument about that." Most kitchen workers decline to talk about the possibility of a kitchen workers' strike similar to the one at Yale last fall. Union issues cause a good deal of dissension among the workers. The younger, more vociferous employees tend to take a more...
...closer to 30. The University has begun to hire "casual workers" at a rate far less than the $4.74 an hour they pay the guards, and Richardson sees that move as the wave of the future. When the guards meet with University officials this week to negotiate a new contract, the "casual workers" will unquestionably be an issue. (Other B&G workers have already ratified new contract...
After months of frustrating contract negotiations, Harvard's maintenance workers walked off their jobs for three days this March. During the strike, the University and the workers traded harsh recriminations; each accused the other of bad faith. The University threatened disciplinary actions, the workers grew angrier, but financial pressures forced them to return...
...underworld, Colombo became an efficient member of a five-man assassination squad under one of the Mafia bosses. Assigned in 1963 by another chieftain to murder reputed Godfather Carlo Gambino and two other high-ranking bosses, Colombo decided his victims would be worth more to him than his contract and tipped them off. Gambino awarded him a place on the Mafia's supreme council, the Commission, but Colombo was shunned as a stool pigeon and small-time hood by other leaders. Police speculated that his violation of the Cosa Nostra's traditional oath of silence, with his highly...
They have chosen not to renew the five year contract President Bok established for Housemasters...