Word: exoduses
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...producing state, every year since Miller took office in 1973, and 85 million man-days have been lost to wildcat strikes in West Virginia alone in the past two-and-a-half years. Clearly, the rank-and-file is dissatisfied with the leadership of Miller, who has seen the exodus of most of his staff over matters of union policy. There is no wistful feeling for the days of the corrupt Tony Boyle; and it is not the influx of too much democracy into the union, as some observers have suggested, but a simple feeling that perhaps Arnold Miller...
...civilian exodus from the south was accelerated yesterday by fears of an Israeli raid in retaliation for the weekend Palestinian attack that killed 30 and wounded 80 Israeli citizens, sources in Beirut reported...
...When Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, for instance, talks of his people and their struggle to survive, his terms of reference are the wars of 1948, 1956 and 1967, the crises he has personally known. Begin, by contrast, speaks with equal feeling not only about the Holocaust but about the Exodus and the destruction of Solomon's Temple. When Dayan talks about Egyptians, he regards them as the warriors who have fought the Jews over the past three decades. Begin views Sadat as heir to the pharaohs who enslaved the Jews almost four millenniums ago. His antipathy toward Arabs goes...
Despite the fighting Amazon image in American movies like Exodus and Judith and in a stream of popular novels, women in the army are not allowed in combat-or anywhere near the fighting. Instead, they serve mostly in support jobs as typists, clerks, nurses and teachers. The reason, says Hazleton, is that Israel is committed to paternal protectiveness toward women: "The army exists to protect Israel's women, not to endanger them in its ranks...
...longtime colleague Robert Benjamin, 68, U.A.'s finance committee chairman., are among Transamerica's biggest shareholders, with a total of 505,000 shares, worth about $7 million. But when Pleskow suddenly quit, Krim and Benjamin decided to follow. Last week others joined the exodus, among them Senior Vice President for Production Mike Medavoy, 37, who is considered tops at measuring popular tastes and making money-spinning deals...