Word: laboration
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashion, they operate indirectly. If a President leans too far to the left, as did López Portillo's predecessor, Luis Echeverria, businessmen can express their displeasure by withholding investments; if he leans too far to the right, as did Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, who ruled from 1964 to 1970, labor leaders and peasant organizations can protest with crippling strikes. To accommodate such pressures, Mexican Presidents usually swing away from the direction of their predecessors, in an effort to appease whatever faction was left most dissatisfied by the previous administration. Echeverria, for example, was considered a conservative before assuming office...
...nonessentials, ranging from new cars and skiing holidays to Christmas presents and charitable contributions. A typical fuel bill for an oil-heated home, about $650 last year, is expected to climb to between $ 1,060 and $ 1,200 this year. In 1978 the average American worker had to labor for 19 hr. every month of the heating season to pay his fuel-oil bill; this winter he will have to work a walloping 34 hr. per month...
...Carter Administration last week attempted to revive its moribund voluntary guidelines by creating a 15-member committee, including representatives of labor and management, that will recommend new wage standards to replace the current 7% guide. Since unions had strongly opposed the guidelines, forming the committee was a step toward reconciliation between the President and labor. Unions still have scant incentive for moderate settlements at a time when inflation is roaring at 13%. The Labor Department announced that consumer prices rose by 1.1% in August, the seventh straight month of an increase of 1% or more. Because prices rise faster than...
...blood clot in the lung; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Lured from Broadway to Hollywood in 1928, he directed Tom Sawyer, Of Human Bondage and Algiers. A founder of the Screen Directors' Guild, Cromwell was hounded out of Hollywood in the early '50s for his pro-labor leanings. Last year he reappeared on the screen in Robert Altman's A Wedding...
...Quantico, Va., during her pregnancy. "The last couple of three-mile runs," she said, "I came in slower than everyone else." After Jacobson was transferred to Camp Pendleton, Calif., as executive officer of an ordnance and maintenance company, she worked hard until the day before she gave birth. Her labor lasted just three hours. Said she: "I credit that to the great physical conditioning of the Marine Corps." Another military mother, Captain Diane Cook, 30, of Dover Air Force Base, Del, worked twelve-hour shifts until a week before her daughter was born. "I had morning sickness," she said...