Word: holdouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That same year, another lineman made the cut: Joe Greene. Arriving overweight after a contract holdout, the Steelers' first-round draft choice looked like a pushover to some Steeler veterans. As soon as he started blowing by blockers, they knew better. They also learned that off the field Joe is a sensitive, gentle friend, still trying to overcome natural timidity and live down the image that he is a bully. (He got his nickname, which he does not like, while playing football at North Texas State University, where the team was called the "Mean Greens.") "I come off as being...
Even this minimal suggestion was more than the intransigent Rev. Ian Paisley could swallow. Following Paisley's lead the caucus voted 37 to 1 to reject any power sharing with Catholics on the Cabinet level; Craig was the lone holdout...
...regime of Marcello Caetano on April 25,1974, Portugal's newly freed press was unanimous in support of the new government. That admiration became dutiful, if not downright slavish, after the government last March nationalized the banks that controlled all of Lisbon's seven dailies. A notable holdout, the Socialist República, finally fell into line following a takeover by the Communist-dominated printers' union, backed by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. Since then, though, several newspapers have openly irritated the government by publishing contentious statements from Portugal's rival military factions and ignoring official...
...emergency Cabinet meeting, Healey presented a proposal for a wage-restraint policy backed by legal sanctions. Instead of waiting to hear the consensus of his Cabinet as he usually does, Wilson promptly backed Healey. He won the decisive approval of the Cabinet. The only holdout was Employment Minister Michael Foot, the silver-tongued tribune of the unions. Foot was given a face-saving week to try to obtain union agreement. But the Cabinet made it clear that the proposal would be introduced in Parliament whether or not the union leaders accepted...
Belgium had been the holdout in a NATO consortium that also includes Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands. Once the Belgians decided, General Dynamics was assured of sales to the four countries of 348 planes worth $2.1 billion. That will be in addition to the 650 F-16s already ordered by the U.S. Air Force as its new generation of fighters for the 1980s. General Dynamics estimated that the 998-plane sale could create 40,000 jobs in the U.S., plus thousands more in the four NATO countries, which will share in production...