Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months Prime Minister Harold Wilson has cajoled, wheedled and haggled with Britain's powerful labor unions in a vain effort to stop their rampaging wage demands. The basis of his policy was the "social contract," a formal deal (although never written into law) between the government and the labor unions. The government would deliver social welfare benefits in exchange for voluntary restraints in pay settlements. Purpose: to keep workers abreast of-but not ahead of-inflation...
...including China and the countries on its vast periphery, to re-examine their relations with one another and with Washington. Last week Thailand-a member of the Association of South East Asian Nations, once regarded as a barrier to Chinese Communist expansion-followed the Philippines and Malaysia in establishing formal diplomatic relations with Peking. TIME'S diplomatic editor Jerrold L. Schecter completed a tour of Asia that included many of the affected capitals. His report...
...aircraft have been removed from the island, and American troops will be reduced from 4,400 to 2,800 by early fall, but the U.S. continues to conduct joint contingency-planning exercises with Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense. Such exercises indicate that any U.S. move to establish formal relations with China this year will be made only if Washington can retain its ties with Taiwan. Peking will have to agree that "normalization and the solution of the Taiwan problem are not simultaneous," say U.S. officials...
...legal taboos against marijuana continue to crumble. Last week California state legislators voted to do away with formal booking procedures, jail penalties and permanent criminal records in cases of pot possession. Though possession remains a criminal misdemeanor, offenders will suffer none of the stigmas of a criminal arrest. The week before, the lawmakers of both Maine and Colorado had drastically decreased the penalty for possession of small amounts of the weed by setting modest civil fines as the sole punishment. Oregon and Alaska (TIME, June 9) had already decriminalized the private use of pot. In all five states, however...
...Guild's withdrawal is being interpreted by NLRB negotiators as a formal end of the 90-month strike, and the agency now recognizes the new group as the Herald's official union. Except, that is, for a couple of further complications. Herald executives, mindful of the paper's 42% drop in circulation since the original strike began and reluctant to face another walkout, are appealing the NLRB decision. Though most of the 1967 strikers have long since found other jobs, the Guild is still holding out for a settlement. But the scabs' union hopes to negotiate...