Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tolerate nothing that might lead to a renewal of ancient enmities between the regions. Himself a Croatian, he booted the president of the Croatian Writers Union out of the Communist Party for "lack of vigilance and irresponsibility." Pouring scorn on the intellectuals as people who do not care about labor and productivity, he asked a group of workers: "Do you pay attention only to commas and full stops, or is there something else in which you are interested?" Actually, Tito is about the only Yugoslav who speaks anything approaching a national language. He goes to some length to be understood...
...former labor lawyer and mediator, Fleming was for five years director of the University of Illinois' Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. He was appointed chancellor of Wisconsin in 1964. The Michigan selectors were impressed by his skill in dealing with the Wisconsin legislature, and by his shrewd handling of student demonstrations, combining firmness with give-and-take. After having been blockaded in his office by one group of antiwar protesters last February, for example, Fleming turned around and put up $1,250 of his own money to bail out 19 students who had been arrested by police during...
...Pinks' badge of honor was their later service when they hired out as company spies or strikebreakers in incidents like the 1892 steelworkers' strike against Andrew Carnegie's Homestead plant outside Pittsburgh. Still sensitive about those years, Pinkerton's Inc. today turns down labor-relations cases as quickly as it does divorces...
...that, many Westerners are eager to make use of Yugoslavia's cheap labor and get in on the growing East European market for Western goods. Several Swedish firms have announced that they are looking for Yugoslav partners "on the condition that business risk be shared, as well as profits." West Germany's Volkswagen is so anxious to set up an assembly plant with Yugoslavia's Dalmaciya Auto that it is offering a full 49% of the necessary cash as investment capital under the code and the remaining 51% as a long-term loan...
...even for a country that has boasted an astounding average annual growth rate of 10% since 1951. Instead of easing to a planned-for 7½%, growth plunged to a slim 1.2% last year. Corporate profits fell 15%, while unemployment, once virtually nonexistent, has risen to 10% of the labor force, or 99,000 workers. Population growth virtually halted as 12,000 Israelis, in the biggest exodus since the country was founded, emigrated in search of work. Even more startling were the queues at unemployment offices, when some 2,000 dispirited workers were handed monthly checks...