Word: faired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...initiative from Lindsay by taking over the negotiations. He named his own mediation panel to supplant the mayor's and treated the outlaw union with unwonted deference. Rockefeller's mediators proposed a pay increase of $425. The union accepted immediately, and the Governor hailed the proposal as "fair and reasonable." Lindsay rejected it out of hand. Though the difference over wages had become seemingly insignificant, Lindsay was determined not to reward the strikers with a figure above what the union leadership had been willing to accept earlier. "A little blackmail," he said, was still blackmail...
...CONSUMERS: In an eight-point program to "assure every American consumer a fair and honest exchange for his hard-earned dollar," the President proposed 1) a crackdown on salesmen's frauds, 2) a major study of automobile-insurance practices, 3) more measures to protect the public from radiation by electronic appliances, 4) blanketing the states with tougher poultry-inspection rules, 5) federal standards on the purity and quality of fish, 6) a safety program for pleasure boats, 7) clearer warranties on appliances and a federal eye on the quality of repairs, and 8) a "consumers' counsel...
...House Master has hit upon the more realistic solution of lessen- ing parietal enforcement because of the disparity among the Houses themselves. It is inconceivable that the present parietals set-up is still supported by others. How can any restriction be called fair when it is applied unequally...
...going on in the City of Boston at this moment than in any city in America--that's by dollar volume in relation to per square yard area and in relation to population served. The third aspect of the program was to endeavor to have the Commonwealth assume its fair share of the responsibility for the City...
...aria beyond the opening phrases. As the movement progressed she became increasingly dependent on the score in her hand, and while her opening phrases had been nicely shaped the rest was little more than competent reading. Still, she obviously had a good ear, enviable accuracy of pitch and a fair amount of vocal agility. Alto Eunice Alberts sang with the inertia typical of her voice range. Her aria in BWV 34 was a minor battle for tempo, she pulling back, Kirchner trying to move things forward...