Word: delay
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...also sets out a new formula for employees forced to quit because of the Jan. 1 breakup of the Bell System or who lose their jobs because of automation. For example, ousted workers with 25 years of seniority can get up to 45 weeks' pay. Other provisions will delay for 36 months any pay reductions that come about because of the divestiture or job reassignment. Still another one will allow for up to $2,500 in relocation pay for displaced people. In short, the new contract is really trying to prepare workers for more and more automation...
OSHA, which has been criticized for failing to set a standard of maximum dust concentrations in grain elevators to avoid spontaneous explosions, blames OMB for the delay. In fact, all but three of 22 new safety rules proposed by OSHA have been blocked by the budget agency. "OMB has no technical knowledge," contends Thomas Seymour, OSHA's deputy director of safety standards. "They get their slant from contacts in industry...
That secret meeting, which lasted 40 minutes, took place on the mobile lounge that carried the Berezhkov entourage to the waiting TWA L-1011 jetliner. During an unscheduled "delay" on the trip across the tarmac, the vehicle was ringed by six State Department security agents, who were prepared to take custody of Andrei if he indicated any desire to stay in the U.S. Burt did not quiz the youth directly about politics, since Charge Sokolov was also on board; they talked about ordinary matters, such as school and the youth's musical interests. But, says one official familiar with...
...finger strength, but superb technique and unshakable concentration are his most powerful adhesives. He may work out a sequence of ten or so moves to take him up an overhang hundreds of feet in the air, then discover that the route cannot be forced any farther. Without delay, before his muscles begin to tire and shake, he must then perform the ten-move ballet perfectly in reverse order. "You can't forget the fact that you're right next to the edge all the time," he says. "If you make any kind of mistake, you're going...
...Learned Hand, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote, "I despise a Judge who feels God told him to impose a death sentence," and added, "I am mean enough to try to stay here long enough so that K will be too old to succeed me." Frankfurter then lobbied to delay Kaufman's appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals...