Word: delft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the gas centrifuge plant at Almelo. Owned and operated by a consortium called Urenco, it was administered jointly by Britain, West Germany and The Netherlands. Khan had first come to Holland in 1963 at the age of 27 to enroll in the prestigious Technical University of Delft. He performed well, both there and, later, in the doctoral program at Belgium's Catholic University in Louvain...
Employees of other - Paperback Booksmiths in the Boston area crossed the picket lines. Peter Van Delft, vice-president of District 65, yesterday cited a recent Supreme Court decision banning picketing in privately-owned malls as largely responsible for the lack of support in the other stores...
...compromise was reached on Thursday night between Van Delft and LRI president Marshall J. Smith with the provision that the warehouse would remain within "commuting distance" of its present location on Commonwealth Ave. "unless there are unforeseen or unexpected circumstances...
...secretaries look skeptical and start peppering Van Delft with questions--Do you have a closed shop? How much are union dues?--but Van Delft handles them well, explaining that District 65 has a union shop and low dues. This meeting, in fact, seems better than most. When Van Delft has had business elsewhere and couldn't make it, things seemed unfocused and less authoritative. Shroder, meanwhile, counterbalances Van Delft; she is funny where he is serious, impulsive where he is knowledgeable, Harvard-connected where he is alien...
...haven't talked about this enough. Nobody's really said why we want a union. There's even some people who aren't here." The speech is hardly a brilliant stroke of organizing strategy; these meetings are supposed to be anything but long self-explanatory sessions. Schroder and Van Delft start to whisper and shuffle papers and the secretaries, their lunch hours almost over, shift in their seats and begin to get up to leave. The young man gives imploring gazes around the room as the secretaries file out, off to an afternoon back at their offices typing and answering...