Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collapse of the national 40-hour norm gives other unions a target to follow. Said a spokesman for the Federation of Unions: "A beginning has been made. From now on reduced hours will be a standard demand." That could mean trouble for Europe's strongest economy and the end of the social contract that had produced a quarter century of industrial peace. German labor may be catching the British disease...
...shop in Peking, and about 15 are likely to be approved, about doubling the number of non-Communist news groups there. The Associated Press and United Press International will be the first to move in, probably by March 1; the major newspapers, the newsmagazines and the three networks will follow...
...Dukakis comes to Harvard he would follow in the steps of his predecessor, former governor Francis W. Sargent. Sargent taught a seminar at the Institute of Politics following his defeat by Dukakis in the 1974 general election...
...those success stories that's satisfying because the artist deserves every bit of acclaim he's received. His first album, recorded with only a bassist and drummer backing him, shocked people in 1977--forces that small hadn't produced such energetic and memorable music in ages. The follow-up only a few months later, This Year's Model, landed on the public almost too soon--it was hard to believe one man could write that many great songs so fast, and record them so well. This Year's Model added an organ to Costello's instrumental mix, but kept...
...children on a $19,000 wage as a worker in U.S. Steel's South Chicago mill: "You really want to revolt, but what can you do? I keep waiting for a miracle-for some guy who isn't born yet-and when he comes we'll follow him like he was John the Baptist." That is a chilling thought, and it only emphasizes the urgency of defeating the inflation that is deflating the dreams of so many Americans...