Word: laboration
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...event had been long expected, yet it still came as a shock that reverberated through the U.S. labor movement. After 24 embattled years as president of the AFL-CIO, George Meany, 85 and ailing, announced last week that he would retire in November. When AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland broke the news to the members of the federation's executive council, they sat in stunned silence...
...leaders began to complain about Meany's strained relations with the White House. Meany blamed Carter for not pushing hard enough for the legislation making unionization easier that Congress voted down. He denounced the President for supporting the original wage-price guidelines, which he felt favored business over labor. Ironically, on the day that Meany's retirement was announced, the AFL-CIO and the White House reached agreement on an accord that will give labor a voice in the setting of future wage guidelines and in forming economic policy to combat the recession...
Aged and cantankerous Meany was, but there is not a labor leader in the land who says he will not be missed. "George Meany is the AFL-CIO," asserts Fred Kroll, president of the railway, airline and steamship clerks' union. No one ever questioned Meany's dedication to the movement. The second of ten children of an Irish family in The Bronx, Meany became an apprentice plumber at 16. He soon proved as skilled at manipulating people as pipes. Stolid in appearance, sometimes slow of speech, he was easy to underestimate. But in any encounter, few rivals could...
...EDWARD LASHMAN, the University's director of external projects, calls it "the most complicated thing I've ever done in my life"--and that from a man who spent many years organizing labor unions and admits to doing time "in some of the country's least hospitable jails...
...scene is different at the seven-story ABC News center on Manhattan's West Side, which, in the hours before World News Tonight hits the air, becomes a busy electronic workshop. In little warrens crowded with equipment, teams of directors and technicians labor to give visual excitement to the taped voices of ABC correspondents, patching quick-shifting background scenes, stunting with double dissolves and freeze shots to fill the exact 47 or 73 seconds allotted a story by the producer. Then comes a final mixing of words and pictures, with a Chiron machine imposing labels or texts in front...