Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convinced that, once the alarm has been sounded, good art easily beats out bad, and that the present scarcity of first-rate art does not follow from a sickness of society but the other way around--unless, possibly, the two chase each other's tails...
...NATIONAL LABOR Relations Board (NLRB) last week agreed to drop its request for an injunction to stop J.P. Stevens' repeated violations of the nation's labor laws in exchange for the company's promise to rehire 11 workers fired for pro-union activities and to follow the law in the future. At best, this settlement reveals an unfortunate naivete on the part of the NLRB. At worst, it indicates that the NLRB has succumbed to pressure from Stevens and other anti-union corporations...
...first, the vigilers seemed only dumbstruck, but anger was quick to follow. When the AAA member left, it was unclear whether the BSA and AAA would publicly denounce the sit-out, or merely withhold their support. (As it turned out the next day, various leaders of these groups participated in the sit-out activities.) The sky was getting lighter by this time, and the coming day was clearly The Enemy, a foot-tapping, non-verbal "Hurry up please, it's time." The approximately 120 people who remained had no idea what to expect: perhaps they would have to cancel...
...their zeal. "They are more conspiratorial than KGB agents," says an official in Hamburg. Nonetheless, terrorism can still be foiled by innovative measures. West Germany, for instance, has developed a new system, known as Zielfahndung (target search): teams of police officers select groups of suspects from computer rosters and follow them to learn habits, weaknesses, friends and hangouts, to the point that they can almost predict what the suspects can do or intend to do. As a result, since 1971, police have arrested more than 200 people suspected of being terrorists...
...lovers move easily into a strong sexual friendship. But they are secretive because they have many mutual friends, and neither wants to endure the loss of privacy or the rituals of side taking that would follow full disclosure. Before propriety degenerates to absurdity, David and Elizabeth spend a glorious week together in a cottage in the English countryside. For that week they live happily ever after; then absurdity, in the persons of their respective exes, again obtrudes...