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Closing the Gaps. In the past Sweden kept labor peace by a combination of civility (including a gentlemen's agreement never to surprise the opposition) and an elaborate system of centralized wage negotiations designed to keep the government's role to a minimum. The current dispute developed a month ago, when the 110,000-member Central Organization of University Graduates (SACO) and the 20,000-member Central Organization of Civil Servants (SR) began a series of strikes after four-month wage negotiations broke down. The impasse developed from the unions' demands for pay boosts of between...
...always like to fence against Princeton," Tom Keller said Thursday, "because they fence the game like gentlemen. They almost believe in the old adage that it isn't whether one wins or loses, but how well one plays...
...added that the subcommittee has had in the past "such gentlemen as J. Edgar Hoover" as witnesses, and that no charges are implied by a subpoena...
...momism" in Generation of Vipers, Polemicist-Novelist Philip Wylie has a certain reputation to live up to. In his own way, he turned the crank letter into a literary form. In that eruption 29 years ago, he added to the sum of human choler by announcing, among other things: "Gentlemen, mom is a jerk...