Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least a step in the direction of political liberalization. It guarantees religious freedom to the tiny minority of Spaniards-30,000 Protestants and 6,000 Jews-who were not born into Catholic families. It confirms the law of last year that relaxed government controls over the labor movement, including the right to strike, and all but destroys the already hollow shell of the Falangist Party. It also creates direct elections for one-fifth of the members of Parliament; the other four-fifths will continue to be selected by the government...
...many criminals have been taking a powder from British jails these days (399 this year) that two months ago, when Soviet Spy George Blake sawed his way out of Wormwood Scrubbs in London, the issue of prison security welled up into a national scandal that acutely embarrassed the Labor government. Home Secretary Roy Jenkins reacted by naming the eminent Earl Mountbatten to head a committee of inquiry. In turn, the onetime First Lord of the Admiralty pledged his word that "We will be out working all the time, not sitting on our backsides...
...nearly seven hours to find the cons guilty-whereupon Judge Fiok finally had his innings. After handing each defendant a sentence of up to 40 years, Fiok rattled off contempt citations that added up to a total of 37 years to be served in solitary confinement and at hard labor. Unhappily, the trio must now also be tried for their mid-trial escape-unless the state takes mercy on Pittsburgh judges and drops the charges...
...also a bleary eye, for composers invariably slave over their scores until the last possible minute, and then Arnstein and his eight copyists must labor round the clock. It can get tedious, but at the rate of $2.40 a page, Arnstein is not complaining: his copying of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, for instance, ran to more than 2,500 pages...
...economic struggle, Britain's Labor Government for months has been urging various competing companies to unite in bigger and more efficient combines. It has met with considerable success. Some recent nuptials...