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