Word: fractious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...polls calmly, as if benumbed, to cast ballots in the nation's first free parliamentary elections in half a century. As they did a year ago, in elections for a Constituent Assembly, the returns suggested that if there was a consensus of any kind among Portugal's fractious electorate, it was against extreme politics of all shades...
Powerful, fractious and strike prone, Britain's labor unions have contributed heavily over the years to the sagging productivity and destructive wage inflation that have brought their nation to the brink of economic disaster. Last summer it took the threat of imminent economic collapse to win agreement by the unions to a voluntary limit on pay. This week Britain faces another crucial test of its ability to get labor cooperation in surmounting the nation's frightening economic woes. Leaders of the Trades Union Congress have set themselves a deadline of Wednesday for deciding whether to agree...
Defenders of the status quo also claim that fractious competition would raise total costs by eliminating the advantages of economies of scale. Uncharitable critics point out that the USPS has hardly shown that its huge size offers great financial advantages. In any case, if it proves true that large concerns can deliver mail cheaper than small ones, then, as in any other such case, large firms will grow up and drive out their smaller, less efficient competitors. Still another argument is that private companies will refuse to deliber to remote rural areas, due to excessive cost. In this case...
...response to my own tremulous assault upon the unsuspecting young at the Crimson sharpens my belief that suffering the uncertainties of embarking upon new seas and mastering a fractious new craft together can only benefit...
...coal above its present record $15 a ton on long-term contracts and put more upward pressure on utility bills, steel prices and the cost of chemicals. Miller, in his first big bargaining test as U.M.W. president, has no margin for moderation. He runs the risk that his fractious rank and file members will thumb down any agreement he signs...