Word: hoeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public relations tactic is placing deceptive full page ads in major newspapers portraying growers as advocates for farm worker human rights and the union as a threat to worker liberty. These are the same human rights advocates who opposed toilets in the fields and abolition of the short-handled hoe, and fired thousands of workers for wearing union buttons and backing the UFW. Growers then mobilized well-heeled, professional strikebreaking outfits that surface whenever farm worker walkouts occur. Their services range from supplying hired guns to recruiting undocumented workers to be used as strikebreakers...
...presidential library, Gerald Ford emphasized how difficult it had been to raise $8.4 million for the building, with second down and $1.4 million still to go. "Two years ago, we were literally back on our own goal line," said Ford, "and we had a long row to hoe. Now we are on the doorstep of success." The Ford library, when completed in two years, will contain 14 million documents, 700,000 ft. of film and 380,000 photographs. One of the documents: a copy of the proclamation Old 48 signed in 1974 granting presidential clemency to Whittier College...
...this week, the ad hoe Committee on Gifts to the Kennedy School of Government released a draft statement on a proposed policy to do just that -- to review gifts and names of faculties for the school...
...findings were publicized on the Business School campus by the student-run Ad Hoe Committee Against Discrimination...
...more pessimistic views is held by James Howell, chief economist and vice president of Boston's First National Bank. He thinks the economy has sufficient momentum to carry it to the beginning of the second quarter in 1979, but "then the country will have a tough row to hoe for the remainder of the year." Howell expects 2 million people to be added to the unemployment rolls, leading to a jobless rate of about 8% (compared with a high of 9.2% during the last recession). A. George Gols, an economist with Arthur D. Little, Inc., expects a recession that...