Word: discordance
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...Seed of Discord. Traditionally, the company bargains separately at each of its 20 plants. But the unions this time insisted on a common expiration date for all Campbell contracts. Behind the demand is the burgeoning drive by A.F.L.C.I.O. Organizer Stephen Harris, to duplicate company-wide contracts that he won from the Union Carbide Corp. and the copper industry. His "traveling committee," representing the firm's unions, made its overriding aim to negotiate contracts for all Campbell plants at the same time. Meat Cutters Union Local President Clarence Clark claims that the old system enables the company to "play...
...would be inaccurate to say that these measures would not have been taken without the death of Martin Luther King Jr. and the subsequent rioting. But the fact remains that it took the flames of discord licking the shoes of the Cambridge pols to make them stop playing at politics and start acting like leaders...
Lincoln said, "There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law." If law and order is removed, nothing will prevent the racial discord within America from turning into a civil war, White against Black. This can be no man's dream; it is a nightmare. Eugene L. Herzog...
...depression marked by listlessness, poor appetite, and an increasing number of real but unnecessary ailments that drive him to the doctor. Wives, too, can become upset by having a man underfoot all day. Dr. Wright quoted one: "I married George for life, but not for lunch." This new discord, he warned, can lead to the breakup of a long marriage...
...private preserve of the art houses but a characteristic of the main-line American movie. Two for the Road, otherwise an ordinary Audrey Hepburn vehicle, has as much back-and-forth juggling of chronology as any film made by Alain Resnais-not to mention a comic acidity about marital discord that is as candid as anything the Swedes have said. Even a conspicuous failure such as John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye bleeds color images through black-and-white in a startling extension of the camera's palette. U.S. movies are now treating once-shocking themes...