Word: holidayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cops will also get an increase in their pay differential--the higher pay scale for police who work shifts after 4 p.m.--but this increase will only take effect late in the contract. The addition of a floating holiday, increased uniform allowances and a broadened definition of funeral leave to include the death of grandparents round out the new contract for the 49 patrolmen...
...contract also includes provisions for the addition of a floating holiday, an extension of funeral leave to include the deaths of grandparents as well as more immediate family, and an agreement that no patrolmen will be laid off during the next 18 months as a result of the assignment of students or watchmen to police-related duties...
Oppression began to ease in the early 1960s when Franco, aware that his country was missing out on Western Europe's mushrooming prosperity, gave a young group of pragmatic technocrats a chance to guide Spain's economic policies. Private industries were offered a five-year tax holiday, duty-free equipment imports, easy credit terms and attractive plant sites as incentives to set up shop in Spain's capital-starved provinces. Some 70 companies moved into the city of Valladolid within four years, bringing $75 million in investments and 8,200 new jobs. Similar boom towns sprang...
...rooted in its unusual creation. Burgess, 58, wrote at least half of his symphony while on a lecture tour of the U.S. earlier this year. "The score was sent to [Conductor] James Dixon from Oshkosh, Wis., without my having checked a note of it aurally," he confessed. "Holiday Inns have Muzak but no pianos...
...long contended that it was Gordy's basic gimmick-the smoothing and packaging of rhythm and blues-that drew white listeners to his label. Essentially, he applied the same formula to his profitable production of Lady Sings the Blues, turning the hard life and times of Singer Billie Holiday into a muzzy backstage love story. It is also what happens in Mahogany. "I wanted to bring the same romantic feeling that movies used to have," says Gordy...