Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...food service director preferred culinary to political art, however, and ordered him to hold the garnishes. When Bates responded by writing HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARX in whipped cream on a cake, he was fired. He has appealed his ouster, and the issue is now before the college president. The wilted salads have mushroomed, he says, into a principle: "Where you have no employer-employee structure to deal with firings, there's no possibility of any community response." Or, more simply, they won't lettuce have...
...leader of the coup, Maurice Bishop, 34, a British-educated lawyer, immediately set up a 14-member Revolutionary Council, which is committed to achieving moderate socialist reform. Bishop promised to hold free elections soon and guaranteed Grenadians a constitutional government and full human rights...
Amid all the alarm over multiplying profits and double-digit inflation, the White House is facing what could be a make-or-break challenge to its Stage II efforts to restrain union pay demands. The crunch will come in its attempt to hold the critical Teamsters contract settlement within the Administration's "voluntary" guideline limits of 7% a year in wage and benefit increases. On the 13th floor of a hotel overlooking Arlington National Cemetery, union and management negotiators have been bargaining in earnest for more than a week to shape a new master freight agreement for the Teamsters...
...from the fourth quarter of '78. Meanwhile, New York City's Citibank separately calculated that real earnings from operations over the whole year rose only 2½%. Said the bank's Monthly Economic Letter: "Despite glowing earnings reports, many U.S. corporations are scrambling desperately to hold even against the inroads of inflation...
With so much at stake, the White House has been using all its muscle to hold the agreement within the guidelines. Federal Mediator Wayne Horvitz, who helped arrange settlements in the postal and oil workers' negotiations, is sitting in on the bargaining and trying to nudge the two sides together. The Administration is implicitly threatening the industry against caving in to union demands. The Interstate Commerce Commission has informally told the companies that they will not be allowed to pass through-as higher rates-any raises of more than 7%. Until now, the ICC has merely rubber-stamped...