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...news was not unexpected, but that did not dampen its revolutionary impact. After 51 months of meetings, labor and management agreed on a 13-week paid sabbatical vacation once every five years (on a rotating basis) for all hourly workers in the top half of the seniority ranks at each steel company. In all of U.S. industry, only the canmakers have even a roughly similar agreement, and Dave McDonald has been trying to get one from the steelmakers for seven years...
When word of the murder reached the King's residence on the banks of the Mekong, it failed to dampen the merrymaking. The band played on, the ministers and their ladies continued to sip champagne. Shrugged one guest: "No one had it more coming to him and from more quarters than did Quinim Pholsena.'' Hardworking, dedicated and devious. Quinim lacked the customary Laotian charm and grew up consumed by bitterness and envy. Unlike most other Laotian politicians, he did not belong to a rich or princely family. He made a lot of money as a merchant...
Surprisingly, Iannello was caught, because, not surprisingly, the sidewalk had not been repaired. On July 9,1962, the Suffolk Superior Court sentenced Charles to a year in Deer Isle House of Correction and fined him $300. This misfortune did not dampen his political aspirations, for Iannello immediately entered the primary fight for his old seat. Courageously, he declared: "I leave the final verdict to be rendered by the voters and I have the fullest confidence that they will vindicate my innocence...
Threats of snow this afternoon, however, may dampen a demonstration today in Boston in support of the students going to Washington. The Hub march is planned for 2 to 4 p.m. in front of the State House...
...unforgettable movie and later a Broadway play. In this new collection of ten stories, he is badly served by Translator Takashi Kojima, who has used almost every cliché in the English language. But even so, Akutagawa's combination of savagery and detachment can raise Western hackles and dampen Western brows...