Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NLRB is clearly inadequate in protecting the rights of workers to organize. The National Labor Relations Act--with its light sanctions against offending companies and its allowances for endless delays--is inherently favorable to management in situations like this. And this has been clear in many labor disputes other than the one between Local 262 and Cambion...
...story named no source and was instantly and vehemently denied by everybody involved. Nonetheless, it caused the most violent spasm yet in the seemingly endless agonies of the pound. The story, front-paged on Oct. 24 by London's Sunday Times, implied that the U.S. Government and the International Monetary Fund would insist that the British government let the pound sink to $1.50 against the U.S. dollar as a condition for a desperately needed $3.9 billion IMF loan to Britain. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Simon, IMF officials and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey all protested...
...these occupied our attentions for a while; an attempt at playing Philosophers' Camp soon bogged down in an absured debate on symmetry. We cheered each other with thoughts of rainbows stretching over the mountains, but as the afternoon wore on and the Ranger stopped by with news of endless rain we wavered and soon had to admit that we weren't going to wait anymore. It felt good to be moving again as we sloshed through the leaves which cascaded down around us in the strong wind. We reached the car by dark...
...even himself. In Candida, the poet Marchbanks and the preacher/politician Morell--rivals for the protagonist's love--are each immured in a prison of words. Marchbanks, an intruder into Morell's apparently idyllic Victorian home, attacks the vacuity of the parson's Christian Socialist platitudes; but his own endless flights of romanticism are no better. Both forms of verbiage are equally foolish--and equally valid. Neither is, in Auden's words, "a way of happening," let alone an incitement to change...
...another, there are signs that the public at large has tired of the radicals' wearisome attempts to politicize every aspect of life in endless meetings and parades. Chiang Ch'ing was so unpopular, reported one Japanese correspondent from Peking last week, that "contemptuous laughter used to break out in the darkness of movie theaters whenever she appeared on the screen." For the past few months, there have been growing signs of a low morale in the country, of a yearning for stability and a better standard of living. Worse, there have been numerous reports of widespread lawlessness...