Word: contractive
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...entirely appropriate, for the movie's subject is superbrainy young people, non-nerd division. They have been recruited to a double-dome school at the M.I.T.-Caltech level by slick Professor Jerome Hathaway (William Atherton), who has an explain-it-all science show on TV and a Government contract to build a particularly unsavory laser-powered weapon. His students do all the hard work, while he glides, snakelike, through the corridors of power. Among his drones are Mitch (Gabe Jarret), an innocent 15-year-old prodigy; Kent (Robert Prescott), who is teacher's pet, half toady, half Gestapo agent...
...statewide program to order bathhouses, bars, sex clubs and porn shops to stop permitting anal intercourse and fellatio on their premises or be closed down. The owners could face fines and jail terms. While attention has focused on homosexuals, New York health officials warned that drug users, who contract AIDS from unsterilized hypodermic needles, now account for a third of all new cases in the state...
Bieber drove a four-barreled bargain. At one point last week, the 6-ft. 5-in. union chief met with Lee Iacocca in the Chrysler chairman's office in a session complete with desk pounding, raised voices and colorful language. When Bieber finally presented the new three-year contract to his ten-member U.A.W. bargaining committee, the group gave him a round of applause and approved the deal unanimously. U.A.W. leaders predicted that the rank and file would ratify the deal early this week and return promptly to work...
Chrysler's top negotiator, Thomas Miner, pronounced the company "pleased" at the settlement. The strike, which began Oct. 16, had been costing the company an estimated $17 million a day. While the price tag on the new contract will be a daunting $1 billion over the next three years, the company was in no position this time to play tough with its workers. Morale has suffered because blue-collar employees felt they were missing their share of the company's bounty. The firm last year had profits of $2.4 billion, and is expected this week to announce hefty third-quarter...
...significant changes in work rules. They wanted to boost productivity by reducing job categories from some 500 to half a dozen, thus requiring employees to perform a wider variety of tasks. The U.A.W. rebuffed that concept, but it acquiesced on another issue. The union agreed to a three-year contract instead of the two-year agreement it had proposed. The U.A.W. had aimed for the shorter term because its Ford and G.M. contracts will expire in 1987, and the union wanted to bargain with all three automakers at once, a strategy that tends to give labor a stronger hand...