Word: formality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Bentinck-Smith '37, Assistant to the President, explained that Pusey had sent personal letters to the tenants because "they were good neighbors, many of them members of the faculty." He continued: "We wanted to give them plenty of time to know about this, rather than sending merely a formal notice of eviction...
...blackballed John McLoughlin, an I.L.A. pier boss and an ex-con (13 years in Sing Sing), arrested at various times for burglary, assault, gun-toting and bookmaking. A fortnight ago, despite court injunctions and its contract, the I.L.A. shut down the whole port-without a strike vote or any formal demands. Union leaflets demanded that the Waterfront Commission show a "humane approach towards men with police records." State governments of New York and New Jersey stood pat behind the commission. Last week, after eight days on strike, the I.L.A. settled for a face-saving formula: a citizens' committee...
Scanlon's way is actually less a formal plan than an approach, with three constant ingredients. First, the union and management in the plant fix a productivity "norm," and the working force is promised a bonus out of the savings the workers can effect by producing at a lower cost per unit. Unlike many other incentive plans, the Scanlon Plan is noncompetitive, does not throw the plant wage structure out of balance, and unites the men on a common goal instead of pitting them against each other. The second ingredient is a system of production councils in which union...
Warren delivered his speech in a flag bedecked Memorial Hall at the formal banquet which concluded the three-day session...
...chancellery on wheels," before the first session began, Adenauer counseled with his aides. They had few expectations. The fact of the Kremlin's invitation to Adenauer-the formal recognition of a man they had so long reviled as an enemy, of a regime they had refused to recognize-was in itself bigger than anything that the visit itself was likely to produce. The Russians wanted to talk about formal diplomatic and economic relations between Moscow and Bonn, and to consider Germany's reunification only at the price of West Germany's withdrawal from the Western alliance. Adenauer...