Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last the dictator saw that his haywire economic development lacked those prime essentials of productivity-labor efficiency and capital investment. He appealed to the C.G.T., but the unions had made their featherbed and were happy to lie in it. Seeking investment, he signed a contract for Standard Oil of California to explore and develop a null chunk of Patagonia. Because it was dealing with arbitrary Juan Perón, Calso insisted on the right to appeal deadlocked company-country disputes to the American Petroleum Institute. Even loyal Peronistas grumbled at that. At the same time, Perón turned angrily...
...Rival coaches have long since ceased to listen to his plaints. But Bibb spoke for them all last week when he attacked the raiders-the fast-talking big-league "bird dogs" who scout college campuses for the least sign of talent, who use the lure of a pro contract to bargain for an athlete's amateur standing...
...frock off her back, seam by seam, until she stands there looking downcast in her uplift. "Look at all these operations!'' he screams at his partner. "If we ran a union shop . . . we'd go broke making this dress." By paying his workers less than the contract minimum, Boss Cobb maintains what garment gamesmen call "The Edge''-a margin of profit that can make the difference between retirement to Miami or to a county relief check. But to keep the union out, he must pay a stiff percentage of his profits to an underworking (Richard...
Moss asserted that the material includes "not only administrative and personal records, but also notebooks and reports of the scientists who did the work." The classified data were not only papers relating to scientific research done here during the war, but also contract and personnel records...
Harvard has traditionally held a place of leadership among Eastern universities in wage rates. "Every term in our contract hasn't always been better than others'," notes John Teele, "but we've consistently been on the upper edge...