Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...service and long-term contracts, the answer is no. But perhaps half of U.S. workers are vulnerable to the common-law tradition permitting dismissal for any reason. The New Hampshire Supreme Court, however, recently struck down the common-law rule because it allowed an employer too much of an "iron hand." If the firing "is motivated by bad faith or malice or based on retaliation," said the court, it "is not in the best interest of the economic system or the public good and constitutes a breach of the employment contract." As a result, those fired under such circumstances...
...Clock in Harvard Square," Eleanor Parker Fiske writes: "The whistles have all blown for six O'clock, and now the city timepieces begin to strike, commencing with a deep boom and running up to a high treble till the air is filled with the clashing of iron tongues... Little groups of students coming from the side streets hasten across the yard, bound for Memorial Hall, and in spite of the general din, fragments of their gay talk come clearly to the passers...
...Premier submitted her resignation, and by extension that of her entire Cabinet, to President Ephraim Katzir. Many Israelis found it hard to believe that their stolid, iron-willed Premier was actually quitting...
...optimism about a price decline is based on the iron law of supply and demand. In the very near future, there will be more oil for sale than there are buyers for it at current prices. World production already has slightly passed last September's 47.8 million bbl. per day, and energy-conservation efforts are holding down demand. By maintaining a 55-m.p.h. speed limit and cutting back on other uses of fuel, the Federal Energy Office reports, the U.S. is saving 1 million bbl. per day. The present sky-high prices are discouraging consumption. Gasoline prices...
Above all, Let's Go's thoroughness is what makes it superior to its competitors. It lists more hotels and restaurants in more cities on both sides of the Iron Curtain, places Frommer or your Eurail Pass could never take you. The researchers are students, and, like Frommer, they make their share of mistakes. But they try harder to orient the American in a strange city, to give him alternatives to the tourist traps, to offer a guidebook that won't be dead weight in Europe...