Word: june
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...time in 1982. The U.S. argues that when it first proposed this protocol, it expected that the treaty would be signed in 1977, and so the protocol would lapse in 1980, a deadline that would not raise too many objections at the Pentagon. The U.S. has offered a compromise, June 30, 1981, but the matter remains unresolved. Unable to settle these and a few other issues, Vance and Gromyko had no choice but to recess the talks...
...affected much of the rest of the U.S. Last June the GAO surveyed 25 counties in five states (California, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma) and discovered that foreigners own no more than three-tenths of 1% of the farm land. The Department of Agriculture figures that, of 1 billion acres of privately owned farm land, only 3 million to 5 million acres are in foreign hands...
...June 16 story, "2-1 Martini Makes Harvard Crimson," analyzed the controversy from start to finish and concluded with this poem, written by Holger Lundbergh, which appeared in the Harvard Club Bulletin...
Clothing. Between the end of May and the end of June, contracts between 150,000 members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and apparel manufacturers will expire. New demands will be modest and wage increases will be tied to productivity gains. The union is well aware that its industry is threatened by low-cost imports, particularly from the Third World...
Electrical workers. Some 300,000 electrical workers in four unions will negotiate new contracts between June and December; the pattern is usually set by the General Electric settlement in June. Most of the unions, again sensitive about imports, are expected to concentrate on job security, and if moderate wage settlements are reached in other industries, the electrical workers will probably follow suit...