Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appease a raucous Negro population with heavy legislation for human rights, how is the comparatively conservative Nixon expected to do so? If a liberal Democratic President could not manage a liberal Democratic Congress, how is the conservative Republican expected to maneuver the same Congress? If the leader of a labor-oriented political party could not pacify the rebellious labor unions, how is the leader of a big-business-oriented party expected to reason with labor? If the President who was swept into office in 1964 on the largest majority vote ever could not unite his country, how can Nixon...
...ever get his own party into line, Socialist Nenni hopes that he can persuade the Christian Democrats to accept reforms in divorce, education, welfare, housing, economic planning and labor. He also knows quite well that the Christian Democrats, who must live with their own strong right wing, are unlikely to vote all those reforms. But perhaps, he reasons, there finally are enough Christian Democratic leaders who are sufficiently disturbed by last summer's upheaval in France and the drift toward disillusionment in their own society to demand that after years of do-nothing government, the next one do something...
...popularize the KGB with the Russian people. The purpose of the exercise is rather to raise the morale of the KGB, which employs some 750,000 people. They were naturally discouraged after Stalin's death when their power was sharply reduced, and most of the vast slave-labor camps they had manned for 25 years were disbanded. But there is much hope for the future, Abel believes, because the young people he now sees entering the KGB are displaying "exceptional stubbornness and persistence in learning from the work experience of their older comrades-the real masters of their profession...
...Mobil has completed a $23 million facility, starting a rush of private investment by U.S. companies that is expected to reach $275 million in three years. All told, more than 320 modern plants are active in metal fabrication, electronics, optical instruments, diesel engines and other fields. Along with low labor costs, they get easy access to Asian markets from Singapore's key location at the tip of the Malay Peninsula. Swan Hunter International, a British shipbuilding and repairing firm, is using that geographical fillip to advantage. Noting that no fewer than 127 mammoth tankers of more than...
...sign himself to friends) cut out, and to what extent Eliot was his own critic. But it is clear that a unique collaboration was involved in the birth of a masterpiece, and the honorary midwife deserves all credit for so splendid an outcome of a long and difficult labor...