Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteer army stand to lose the most from this intransigence. There is next to no support for compulsory national service in Congress, so no one there cares if Rep. Rivers doesn't like the idea; proponents of voluntary national service can take their plans to the House Education and Labor Committee, the most consistently liberal committee in the House, where they could ask for funds to finance additional voluntary agencies. Once voluntary service involves more young people, they can repeat the claim for draft exemption...
...design or possibly by chance that a fight broke out two weeks later on Macao's nearby island of Taipa between police and 65 leftist construction workers; amid a melee of flying fists and truncheons, at least 20 persons were injured. Macao's leftist newspapers and labor unions immediately cried "fascist" brutality, and Peking was soon warning darkly that the government's "truculent and unreasonable attitude" would lead to worse trouble...
...Bliss finds the couple beamish and breaking into a delightful soft-shoe dance in their bare feet. Comes the nine-month dawn, or Counting the Contractions. "This has been going on for millions and millions of years," coos Mary Martin reassuringly. Preston, looking as if he were in protracted labor pains of his own, replies ruefully: "How did the men ever live through it?" And so it goes, from The First Spat to Son's Wild Oats-something involving a bottle of bourbon. Suddenly it is time for daughter to leave the nest, and Fond Father Waxes Wroth...
...builders have dismantled organizations, dispersed labor forces and dropped land options, the economic ripples have spread. The price of some suburban acreage has slowed its long climb. Construction unemployment rose to 9.3% last month. So far this year, housing has slumped 30% in Omaha, 39% in Albuquerque, 40% in Philadelphia and El Paso, 51% in Los Angeles, 58% in Reno. Builder Dean Hunziker of Ames, Iowa, has cut his production from 100 to 72 homes a year, laid off half his work force. Houston Builder Conrad Harness, who planned to put up 100 apartments and 100 homes this year...
Mario Savio, who had been neatly isolated by Heyns, nevertheless claimed victory. Crying "student power," he contended that the regents could have taken reprisals, but were "too damn scared." Now, students and labor, symbolized by the assistants union, had been united, and they could close down "the great and profitable university" if it did not "concede to our demands." Actually, the new fuss had alerted most of Berkeley to the fact that the freedom of students and faculty-and the intellectual luster of the entire university-would certainly suffer unless order is maintained. The nonstudent thrill seekers had unwittingly strengthened...