Word: headway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 2--Federal mediators shuttled between steel industry and union negotiators today. When it was over Steelworkers Union President David J. McDonald said there was "absolutely no headway" toward ending the 111-day-old steel strike...
...programs are further scattered among the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the Defense Department's Office of Research and Engineering. Result: a maze of divided responsibilities in which appalling amounts of time and effort go into switching programs around on organizational charts instead of into making technological headway...
...schools for Mexican-American students. But this is no full solution. When Tijerina tackled the problem two years ago, he discovered that as many as 200,000 Texas five-year-olds still could not speak English. The inevitable result: the children enter first grade normally at six, make no headway in school, and eventually drop out. Tijerina found that in five Texas counties alone, where the population is 90% Mexican-American, the state spent $3,000,000 a year to support dependent children...
...range, Reuther dodged palm tree backgrounds, wore a business suit and kept his bulging briefcase prominently at hand as a businesslike prop. He refused to go near the water, scheduled a breakfast-to-dinner round of indoor conferences with his underlings. But his battle against pleasure made little headway with the majority of some 200 labor chiefs, relatives and staffers, who refreshed themselves on the beach with a mammoth rum drink called the "Tropical Itch," went sun-scorched to San Juan's casinos and nightclubs...