Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secretly with Nkomo in Lusaka, Zambia, last month. Convinced that his "internal settlement" with three moderate black leaders had failed because it had not brought an end to the fighting, Smith had flown to the Zambian capital to see Nkomo on Aug. 14. Smith urged Nkomo to join the Salisbury government and thereby, in effect, dump his Marxist co-leader of the Patriotic Front, Robert Mugabe. In return, Smith promised to help Nkomo become the first President of an independent Zimbabwe, as the country will be known, and at that time Nkomo's guerrillas would merge with the existing...
...pamphlets whether the recipient was a patient or an employee. After this incident, Local 880 filed a grievance with the NLRB charging an unfair labor practice that violated Section 7 of the NLRA. Section 7 guarantees employees the right to choose whether or not they want to join a union. After the complaint was filed, the hospital changed its rule to forbid one-to-one solicitation in the cafeteria in order to force the NLRB to define the rights of a non-proprietary hospital, the hospital's court brief says...
...Aerospace wings and Rolls-Royce engines for its new 757, a twin-engine plane that will carry up to 195 passengers on short-to medium-range flights. Simultaneously the British government, which owns the two companies, was being pressed by the French-German-Spanish owners of Airbus Industrie to join them instead in making a narrow-bodied Airbus. Playing a kind of commercial Solomon, Prime Minister James Callaghan tried to win for Britain a piece of both projects...
...Callaghan decided against British wings for the 757. Instead, the British Government pursued negotiations to join the Airbus consortium. That might strengthen Airbus as a Boeing competitor-if the British are allowed in. But the French threaten to freeze them out if Britain goes ahead with the Boeing deal. While it must find some other builder for its wings, Boeing can rejoice in having emerged from the dogfight with $1 billion-plus in orders-enough to assure the 757 a zooming sales takeoff...
...matter. TV audiences adore performers who burst into their living rooms like loudmouthed relatives. Though such actors as Peter Falk, Telly Savalas, Robert Blake and Carroll O'Connor never caused a sensation in movies, they all made it quickly to TV superstardom. Thanks to Kaz, Leibman will soon join their ranks...