Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year, while industry's productivity is increasing only 2% to 3% yearly and longshoreman productivity is actually declining. Meanwhile, the agreement did nothing about the featherbedding "work gang rules" that management claims are holding productivity down. This question was left to what promises to be a nearly endless series of study groups. Even with that victory, several locals dawdled about going back to work until word came from the Administration that President Kennedy was "fed up" with their recalcitrance. At week's end the International Longshoremen's Association ordered them to return to the docks...
...your side so you don't have to make a U-turn through traffic and there aren't six cars waiting and you need gas or something, please stop in." With the help of California's chirpy ad agency Weiner & Gossage, Petrofina spoofs competitors' seemingly endless additives by transporting its gas in pink tank trucks and giving away "Pink Air-the additive of the future." Petrofina reports a healthy rise in U.S. profits and sales (now $77 million...
...first sight, all this seems far removed from Feininger's great work, his architectural paintings, in which subtly shaded planes of color seem to reach back into endless space. But even in the little wooden sculptures that he gave away to friends, there is the sense that only through distortion can one see reality, and that since reality changes constantly, distortion of some sort must imply that change. The comic and the cosmic artist were not so far apart, and Feininger the painter was always grateful to Feininger the cartoonist. "Far be it from me," he said, "to underrate...
Clear to All. Goulart campaigned against parliamentary government from the moment he took office, and did not knock himself out trying to make the system work. Responsibility for running the country was transferred to Congress, the Cabinet and the Prime Minister. But congressional leaders engaged in endless political bickering, while Brazil's inflation, already severe, grew worse. Prime Minister followed Prime Minister and new U.S. investment, frightened by the instability, dropped from $266 million in 1961 to $62 million last year. Not until last September, when they were thoroughly frightened by threats of a pro-Goulart military coup...
...Kaiser contract is the product of two years' work by a committee that Kaiser Chairman Edgar Kaiser, 54, and the United Steelworkers set up in a joint effort to prevent a repetition of the bitter 1959 steel strike. The plan aims to avoid endless haggling over wage rates and to soften the impact of technological change in the rapidly automating steel industry. Basic elements...