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After the deadline passed, the Teamsters called selective strikes against 73 of the 500 companies involved in the negotiations. This was a union effort to flex some muscle but avoid provoking the White House into imposing the 80-day cooling-off period under the Taft-Hartley Act. To invoke the law, which would require the drivers to return to work, the President must show that a strike will endanger the nation's health or safety. The partial walkout also would have enabled the union to push for divide-and-conquer settlements with individual firms. To foil that move, trucking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ripping Apart the Guidelines | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...Restic Library: Multi-flex options for the evasive politician. Objections: Illegal man in motion...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Operators Are Standing By | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...meteoric stars of Cavileer's undergraduate days were Dave Guarnaccia and Art French, the legendary "lateral twins." The tandem ran out of a razzmatazz offense that was a type of antique multi-flex...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Statistician Bob Cavileer | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

Harvard's multi-flex should be in its full kaleidoscopic splendor as Joe Restic is planning to unveil a couple of new offensive sets in an attempt to dazzle Cornell's defense. "It could be very exciting," Restic says with tongue in cheek...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Ivy Rivalries Resume as Cornell Enters Stadium | 10/14/1978 | See Source »

...field or something?' And then everybody starts laughing, and I guess I was laughing too--yeah, I was laughing--except they were sort of laughing AT me, you know, not WITH me? Boy, what a bonehead move that was--you see, the whole time, it was the multi-FLEX offense...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: JACK'S PROFILES | 10/14/1978 | See Source »

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