Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't come for free. When student support at Harvard for RTH dissipated and the tenant organization itself grew flabby and lost some of its fight as well as some of its more radical members, Harvard began to exact some concessions. In exchange for some of its earlier aid to the RTH dream homes, the University asked for one simple favor--RTH was not to come out against the total-energy power plant. In February of 1975, the residents agreed to the deal...
Because these three unions intend to demand pay raises consistent with the massive rise in the cost of living, it is likely that the negotiating process in each case will be extremely arduous. Harvard is adamant about not meeting exact increases in the cost of living, which is the very cause of the present impasse in the police negotiations...
...transformation of time did not begin, however, with the factory, but with a more surprising, yet obvious source-the railroad, and the exact coordination that railroading demanded...
Taylor's essential idea was to organize the work unit along the same lines that Eli Whitney had organized production. Traditional management had little exact knowledge of the time a job should take, the tools best adapted to a task or the pace at which a man should work. Taylor's innovation-time-and-motion study-was based on a painstaking analysis of work: the exact number of elementary operations or motions, the time required to do these, the elimination of waste motions and the recombination of these times and motions into a mathematical formula...
...fluke, distorted by imprecise measurements of the number of students entering the job market; experts unanimously predicted a new climb in joblessness during July. Instead, the Labor Department reported last week that the July rate dropped further, to 8.4%, and this time it said that the figure was as exact as statistical techniques can make it. Surprised Administration economists still think the rate might go up again in August; but even if it does, that will not alter the conclusion, now widely held among economists, that the nation's worst recession since the 1930s is definitely over...