Word: defend
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...corporations who fix prices to maximize their profits rather than production and employment." Even ex-Socialist Reuther knew better than that. But what was encouraging in the hassle was that both management and labor-each understandably edgy about the rising criticism of the upward spiral-were so anxious to defend their positions before the public. From such edginess could come a new caution which ultimately should benefit management, labor and the U.S. economy in general...
Tough-minded A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany was unimpressed. In his prompt retort to the Galveston resolutions, Meany made it clear that the united labor movement would go ahead and pass judgment on Beck & Co. whether they showed up to defend themselves or not. "The only accuser of Mr. Beck," said Meany, "will be Mr. Beck-his own testimony, his lack of testimony, and the record...
...Scranton city solicitor. James McNulty, for protection. McNulty, it turned out, was also lawyer for the building trades' unions. Cochran said he was warned that if union members committed any crime, such as pushing over a wall of Cochran's new house, City Solicitor McNulty would defend the unionists. And in fact, several days later, the wall was damaged...
Science in the Defiles. SETAF stakes its job in a three-point pattern. Headquarters, stationed in ancient Verona, and Task Forces Alfa and Bravo,* in Vicenza, are assigned to defend Italy's northeastern frontier (Austria and Yugoslavia); about 150 miles to the southwest, at the Italian port of Livorno, is Task Force Sierra, which supplies Alfa and Bravo with everything from carbines to carefully shrouded atomic warheads. If war comes, Alfa and Bravo can take aim on or fan out into the painstakingly mapped passes and defiles of the nearby Alps with astonishing mobility. With...
When Britain's House of Commons sat down to the business of the week, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was all set to defend his drastic new atomic-age defense policy (TIME, April 15). But the Laborites seemed scarcely interested. Instead, with the nagging insistence characteristic of the troubled British conscience, the Laborites waged an inconclusive and none too logical debate among themselves on whether or not the government should go through with the scheduled test of Britain's first hydrogen bomb...