Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short on cash and long on potholes; about 10,000 of them pit Wellston's 44 miles of streets. When former Police Chief Max Downard burst a tire in a particularly jagged chasm, he jokingly proposed to Mayor Harold Souders that the town sell its potholes to help raise the $70,000 needed to repair last winter's wear and tear. After the suggestion was reported in the paper, says Souders, "a woman walked in with a check for two potholes." Then another woman came in, and then another. With that, the town went into business...
...gain a favorable settlement of a boundary dispute. As part of the deal, he cut off supplies to the Kurds and closed his border to the retreating rebels. Kurdish Leader Moustafa Barzani, who died in Washington early this month at age 86, pleaded in vain for continued American help...
...Caribbean island. On display at his residence atop picturesque Mount Royal last week were a donkey's eye, indigo, saltpeter and a mysterious white powder. Presumably these had been part of the spooky, voodoo-like rituals that the deposed Prime Minister is said to have practiced to help keep himself in power...
Both sides will give and take as the negotiations proceed, but there is a limit to how much Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons can bend. If he stays firm and wins a big settlement, that may help him fight off small but growing and vocal dissident movements within his union. The insurgent groups-Washington-based PROD Inc. and the Teamsters for a Democratic Union in Detroit-aim to wrest control of the scandal-scarred union's leadership. The rebels want more democracy and a cleanup...
Though the 10,000 or so dissidents will play no direct role in negotiations, their views accurately reflect those of many union members who have not joined them. The national leadership feels that a big settlement would help quiet members' broad complaints about unsafe working conditions, compulsory overtime and mismanagement of pension funds. If Fitzsimmons settles for too little, he risks handing the dissidents a major arguing point in future struggles...