Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Government began damming the lordly 1,210-mile Columbia River; the Grand Coulee, the Bonneville and 24 other dams in the system are the heart of a Northwest network that generates 43% of all the hydroelectric power in the nation, yet even that is not enough. Demand in the region is expected to double in 20 years. Problem: building more dams on the Columbia has been stopped for environmental reasons...
Whatever thoughts he might have had privately, Begin in his public statements did little to encourage the dreamers. During a Knesset debate last week over the proposed Cairo summit, he took a hard line on territorial concessions in exchange for peace. Said Begin: "We do not accept the demand for June 4, 1967, lines [referring to Arab insistence that Israel surrender land captured during the Six-Day War], nor the demands for the establishment of a so-called Palestinian state, nor the repartition of Jerusalem." Begin also took a passing swipe at Israelis who feel his government owes Sadat some...
...miners felt compelled to work beyond the shift ending at midnight Saturday, and the companies were not scheduling Monday production.) Thus began what will probably be a long stoppage, perhaps twice as long as the 32-day walkout in 1974, over a strange issue: the U.M.W.'s demand that its locals be given the right to strike individual mines when a national agreement is in effect, provided that 51% of a local's members approved...
...union's present national leaders must earn fealty. If they back off from promises, wildcats result, and assertions like that of Mike Adkins, 33, are heard: "Up here, on the creek, nobody tells me when to work and when not to work." But when the leaders demand something that the miners want, like a local's right to strike over grievances, the rank and file responds. "By God, it will be done!" bellowed Adkins before he and fellow miners walked out of the pits last week. "I believe in this union, and I'll give up Christmas...
...publicity about its opposition to unionism or by the A.C.T.W.U.'s efforts to organize a boycott. Indeed, many argue that the fines and legal costs of fighting the unions are small compared with the cost of higher wages and better fringe benefits, like pensions, which organized workers would demand. Last week the company reported that sales in the fiscal year ended Oct. 29 rose almost 30%, to $1.5 billion. Profits, it is true, dropped 14.4%, to $35 million, but they were coming back up in the final quarter. Labor's hope is that the new higher penalties...