Word: give
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unionization easier that Congress voted down. He denounced the President for supporting the original wage-price guidelines, which he felt favored business over labor. Ironically, on the day that Meany's retirement was announced, the AFL-CIO and the White House reached agreement on an accord that will give labor a voice in the setting of future wage guidelines and in forming economic policy to combat the recession...
...alarmed were Soviet officials over the rash of recent defections that they canceled a scheduled 28-concert U.S. tour by the Moscow State Symphony. Before the drastic decision was made, the orchestra's U.S. booking agent, Samuel Niefeld, was suddenly summoned to Moscow. Niefeld was reportedly asked to give "guarantees" that there would be no defections from the orchestra. Obviously Moscow was as dissatisfied with his reply as it was distrustful of the orchestra's loyalty...
Soviet officials are now fearful that the rash of defections that began with the Bolshoi could become an epidemic among the hundreds of athletes who will soon go abroad for international pre-Olympic competitions. Last week party officials were preparing to give prospective travelers special indoctrination lectures. A more forceful method of ensuring loyalty is in store for eleven Soviet boxers who are scheduled to compete in the World Cup Championship matches at New York City's Madison Square Garden this month. Instead of two trainers, as is customary, 18 security men in the guise of coaches will literally...
First, Patriotic Front Leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo surprised the conference by agreeing to give the tiny Rhodesian white minority (3% of the population) an outsize 20% of the seats in a future parliament. The move clearly ran against their longstanding contention that such a guarantee would be inherently "racist." Their grudging acceptance of it now brought them into line with the Salisbury delegation of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa, which had adopted the 20% formula a week earlier. Then, with equally surprising magnanimity, the bishop's multiracial coalition government reversed an earlier stand and announced its acceptance...
...this week's annual meeting in Belgrade of the finance ministers and central bankers of the 138-country International Monetary Fund, another step may be taken to dethrone the dollar as the world's chief reserve currency, and replace it with a collection of monies that will give more economic and geopolitical power to hard-currency nations, including West Germany and Japan. In an attempt to remove from the money markets some of the excess dollars that provide cannon fodder for speculators, the IMF would replace as much as $40 billion with its own bonds. Now there...