Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statewide grand jury and funding for a prosecution effort. Criminal laws are being strengthened, and the legislature is expected to approve a bill outlawing the practice of investing proceeds from the rackets in legitimate businesses. Public pressure is mounting on the state regulatory agencies to crack down on fraudulent land schemes. A task force of FBI agents, postal fraud inspectors and SEC investigators has begun to probe. Says Babbitt: "Right now we are about two years into what I think is a minimum five-year...
...patrol of the crack "General Somoza" battalion surrounded the village of Varilla in Nicaragua's Zelaya province. With the troops were several jueces de mesta (police magistrates). The official charge that brought them there: five of Varilla's campesino families had aided antigovernment guerrillas. The soldiers shot, bayoneted or strangled four men, eleven women and 29 children. After dumping the bodies in an unmarked pit, the magistrates divided the villagers' land among themselves...
...union organizers seeking to crack the Southern textile industry picked as their No. 1 target J.P. Stevens & Co., the nation's second largest textile maker. Their reason: before it moved most of its mills south, Stevens had union contracts in some of its Northern plants, and organizers thought it might be less hostile to unionism than other Dixie employers. That was a monumental miscalculation: Stevens fought back so hard as to lead the National Labor Relations Board to accuse it last year of "unfair labor practices of unprecedented flagrancy and magnitude." To this day the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile...
...Stevens is an exceptionally tough nut to crack, even by Southern standards. The NLRB has cited the company 15 times since 1965 for violations of federal labor laws. Stevens has been forced to offer jobs back to 125 dismissed workers and give them and other employees $1.3 million in back pay and other compensation. The company closed one carpet-yarn mill in Statesboro, Ga., after a court ruling that management had to bargain in good faith with the union; Stevens says the mill was shut because demand for its product "declined drastically." In 1974 the union won an election...
...Objects Lab, a Greek vessel lies on its side on a sponge cushion. Dipping a Q-tip in a solution an assistant removes old paint used to cover earlier retouching, exposing the crack-mending in the process. The slow and tricky work is necessitated solely by changed aesthetic tastes. Formerly, conservators could use new paint to "restore" a lost section of a picture without invoking the wrath of purists. Now, Beale said, the emphasis on presenting just the original, even when that causes gaps in a pattern...