Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company's position has been that workers do not want unions and that the company has a responsibility to resist them. They cite the fact that the union has lost elections in several plants. But they fail to mention that the company fired union sympathizers and intimidated workers during these campaigns. This not only influenced those elections but chilled the desire for unions in other plants...
CONVERTING TO COAL. A 10% tax credit on the cost of new equipment would be granted to factories that switch from oil and natural gas to coal-fired systems. Industrial users of oil who fail to switch will be hit with a 900-per-bbl. penalty tax that will rise to $3 by 1985. Money collected from such levies would be channeled into a development fund for accelerating the conversion of plants to coal. Factories and utilities would be flatly forbidden to burn oil or gas under new boilers unless they could demonstrate that for some special reason they could...
...prepared to take risks and sometimes to fail, but stay on the lookout for opportunities to prove your managerial skills...
...concentrate on their work, and they felt both a sense of personal loss and a desire to continue their careers. All eventually resolved this conflict by relaxing, taking a broader perspective of their lives and their responsibilities-and often by marrying older men who already had families. Women who fail to redefine their lives in that way, Hennig and Jardim found as they interviewed other women in the course of their research, often stay in middle management, becoming even more overspecialized and embittered...
...third-year class would be the first to fall under such a requirement. But three-fourths of the group has refused to file a plan of concentration, even though Ebert sent all students in the class a letter a month ago stating that those who fail to submit concentration plans will not be allowed to return to the school in the fall...