Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These people point out that Harvard has been negotiating for new contracts with its labor unions since last July, and that, with one exception, only those unions with professional bargaining agents (AFL-CIO affiliates) have reached settlements...
...disastrous ideological split during the next four years; they must make sure they keep control of vital local offices; old line Byrd Machine leaders must be persuaded to step down for younger candidates and move closer to the increasingly powerful moderates who will make a play for the urban, labor and Negro vote...
...most of the U.S. economy, output per man-hour increases 21% annually, doubles every three decades. Live performance is not subject to labor-saving breakthroughs-it takes four musicians 40 minutes to play Beethoven's String Quartet, No. 14, just as it did when it was written in 1826. Thus, while wage increases in an industry such as auto manufacturing are at least partially offset by productivity increases, matching raises in performers' salaries, to say nothing of other production expenses, can only lead to higher costs...
Just to help the marriage work out, the Labor government announced that it would take a "substantial minority interest"-perhaps as much as 33% of the merged company. All of which should make for quite a mother...
Like a loving, wealthy mother with a homely daughter, Britain's Labor government for months has hinted at, prompted and hoped for a marriage between the forlorn British Aircraft Corp. and the airframe interests of the handsomely profitable Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd. BAC was shyly willing; Hawker Siddeley was reluctant. Whereupon the old lady-Her Majesty's government-stepped in, urged a sort of shotgun merger...