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Contradictory as that language sounds, it offered Meany a chance to participate in the program without publicly eating his words and he took the chance posthaste. Meany warned, however, that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. will not consider member unions bound to forgo strikes or court challenges against Pay Board decisions. In addition, he announced that A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions around the country will set up "watchdog units" to constantly check on how much prices rise during Phase...
...wittingly, sometimes not, California's Governor Ronald Reagan has turned quite a few memorable phrases in his brief political career. Reagan was cracking the quip again when he announced that he would lead a delegation pledged to President Nixon at next year's Republican Convention-and thus forgo for the time being any presidential ambitions of his own. Of New York Mayor John Lindsay's plaint that his is the second toughest job in the world, Reagan said that it probably was-"the way he does it." George McGovern, Reagan said, "is testing the water, probably...
...reformers are almost invariably the losers. First to go have been enlightened school programs for students who do not fit standard curriculums. New York City schools have had to eliminate some special classes for mildly disturbed children; Anchorage. Alaska, has had to forgo an expansion of a successful program for high school dropouts; Portland, Me., has had to cut back its drug-abuse program...
...wants it. But the White House meeting with labor leaders on future wage-price stabilization-which will be followed this week by similar meetings with congressional leaders, businessmen and farm officials-ended on a mildly truculent note. Most of the union officials warned that they would not forgo strikes. They would accept the creation of a stabilization board representing labor, business and the public, but not, as Nixon wants, Government...
...Gulf coasts, except for some Maine ports, only Delaware Bay has deep enough water to handle the world's growing fleets of supertankers and giant cargo ships. But in a recent letter to a complaining industrialist, Peterson bluntly suggested that there was a somewhat less economic alternative: "Forgo the use of large vessels and continue to use smaller vessels...