Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though no one could agree when a summit would be held, there was at least some agreement about the only thing that might profitably be discussed there. The subject: disarmament-or, as the technicians prefer to call it, arms control...
...gesture made at the U.N. by Khrushchev. It will come as heads of state re-examine positions on nuclear tests so laboriously discussed at Geneva-the possibility of agreeing on an international inspection system that could lead to the reduction of armaments, step by conditional step. Even such arms control (as opposed to disarmament) will not be ensured in a single summit session...
...belong to management. The cases of featherbedding produced by management have been few and inconclusive; they are not industry-wide complaints--such as the railroads have against firemen in deisel engines--but specific instances that can be settled by arbitration. As for the general management desire to regain more control over work rules, most unionists feel that this is a reaction to the days of finks and company unions. Considering the progress made under present regulations, the company demand on work rules seems designed more to impede union activities than to redress grievances...
...right to put people back to work under a court injunction. When you force things upon human beings, you simply make more trouble for yourself in the long run. We think a showdown with labor, an attempt to turn the clock back, will merely result in more Government control...
Convict Kinney and Psychologist Pryor are in contention for effective control of the prison population. To demonstrate his power, Kinney organizes a prison riot, his pretense being a "good new boy," who has been caught with a potato peeler hidden in a place of maximum security, and been put in solitary. Kinney spreads the word and soon "the less orderly element in this institution" have burned the chapel, organized a tuba and trumpet band around improvised barbecue pits, and taken three guards as hostages...