Word: intransigente
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Ernest Weir was no less intransigent with his peers. In 1941 he gave his employees a io/ hourly raise at a time when U.S. Steel was holding out against the United Steelworkers for 7?. Steelmen had to fall into line, bitterly accused Weir of boosting the ante just to keep...
The disarmament discussions now taking place in London under the auspices of the United Nations Sub-committee on Disarmament show, for almost the first time since 1946, definite signs of progress. Although the characteristically intransigent Soviet position showed signs of flexibility in May, 1955, the present discussions are the first...
This kind of policy makes no promises of scoring a satisfyingly early victory over Nasser: it does not even set itself to bring him down, but only to reduce his capacity to do mischief. An intransigent Nasser, presiding over a nation too pauperized to be hurt much from economic pressures...
Cash First. Unchecked, the spreading strikes would be one more deadly blow to Britain's determination to keep its place in the world. (Nearly half of the exports on which Britain lives are made by members of the engineering unions.) Both shipyard and engineering employers adamantly refused to offer...
At this step in the Mother Goose progression, the bacon still seems a long way from home. To read the excitable pronouncements in the kept Cairo press, Egypt is unyielding about everything: gives the U.S. and U.N. no credit for getting Israeli troops out of Egypt (something the Egyptians could...