Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About a year ago, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and TWUA merged to form the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers (ACTW). ACTW and the AFL-CIO are now beginning a massive campaign to unionize Stevens and the textile industry. They plan to fight the campaign on two fronts: first, unlike previous attempts to organize a few plants at a time, the unions will try to organize in all 85 plants simultaneously. Second, a nation-wide boycott of J.P. Stevens products is beginning, aided by support from church groups, civic leaders, politicians, and many others...
Francis M.Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty for the Colleges, said yesterday he thinks the Faculty will approve the motion to form the committees...
...perhaps even more intriguing, because less famous. Ammi Philips's Portrait of Harriet Leavins (1815) strikingly modern in its primitiveness; or Ingres's Study for Andromeda, a fascinating closeup of a lone marble woman that lets you see how Ingres sculpted his figures to achieve that smooth sensuality of form; or Monet's Fish (1870) whose glinting gold and silver scales formed of his brushstrokes, are the perfect fusion of technique and subject; or Sargent's Breakfast...
Walter Heller of the University of Minnesota, Arthur Okun of Brookings and Washington Consultant Robert Nathan, all Democrats, see potential flaws in the plan. The program's proposal to return money collected in higher gas and crude oil prices in the form of tax credits to consumers will, in Okun's view, boost living costs, kick up wage demands and add to the Consumer Price Index. All three members would prefer that the Government use the additional tax revenues to help keep the C.P.I, down-either by paring payroll taxes or by returning the money to states...
...discipline. If these could be diverted from the battlefield, he reasoned, the nation could harness the spirit and energy usually evoked only by local conflict or foreign adventure and be the richer for it. He called for, instead of military service, a "conscription of the whole youthful population to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against Nature...