Word: fractiously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pacific during World War II, then returned to New York to rise in union influence, volunteering for any assignment that came along. When he was elected president of the construction trades council in 1957, he turned a no-show job into a powerful one, mediating disputes among the fractious New York locals. At the end of tough, bruising squabbles, exasperated union bosses would turn to Brennan. "Awright Pete," one would say. "Whaddya want...
...Hell." His nickname on campus is "Tiger," and with his gravel voice and fondness for four-letter words, he can and does talk tough to both labor and management. Having spent many of his 58 years studying unions, he knows as much as anyone in the nation about the fractious construction industry...
...There was Alberto Pirelli, who showed off his tires by sponsoring an auto trip from Peking to Paris, and Textile Mogul Giannino Marzotto, who gave his workers vacations in Russia to disillusion them about Communism. Today most of this individualistic breed is gone, pushed aside by modern management techniques, fractious unions and a long, relentless drive by the state to control, modernize and expand the country's industry...
...OVERSEERS' COMMITTEE A GOOD IDEA? Once the negotiation path is entered, an outside mediator trusted by both convicts and officers can be useful. But if there is a committee of mediation, it must be small to be effective, and it cannot be fractious. There were far too many Attica observers, and they were sharply divided in ideology. Rockefeller, who had complained at first about the role of "outside revolutionaries" in the uprising, was asked why he later admitted a potential troublemaker like Seale to the bargaining. "Because the prisoners wanted him," he replied...
Latha is a handsome woman of 38, waiting with the guile and patience of Penelope for her fractious true love, a hillbilly hell raiser named Every Dill. Many years before, Every had not only raped and robbed her but rescued her from a mental hospital into which her mean big-city sister had placed her when she was entirely sane. Latha does not lack for more manageable suitors-the town drunk, an amorous farmer, the enraptured child. But she waits, more or less chastely, for Every to return. Eventually he does so, a reformed man turned revival preacher...