Word: laboration
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tradition, Memorial Day starts the American summer. Beaches, amusement parks, resorts welcome their biggest crowds since the previous Labor Day. The roads are jammed with city families streaming out to picnic areas or campgrounds. Next weekend, however, the stream may be more of a trickle, and some who venture forth may even be stranded, unable to find a gas station that will fill their tanks for the haul back home. Memorial Day could mark the point when the gasoline shortage of 1979 starts to hurt nationwide-and when Americans finally realize that the nation's growing addiction to undependable...
...turn out, of course, that with the passing of spring there will be little movement to lead. The intensity of the antiwar protests or even of the ERA and abortion rallies, has not materialized. Students, the usual backbone of demonstrations, seem ambivalent. Many liberal and labor groups are dubious. Says James Wall, Carter's 1976 Illinois campaign manager...
...with the $1000 limit on individual contributions, corporate PACs have become a major source of funding in Congressional campaigns. And the room for further growth is tremendous. Two thirds of the 500 largest industrial firms have yet to form a PAC. Business is quickly leaving the once dominant labor union PACs far behind in the campaign contribution game...
Well, not really, for the proposals amounted to a good deal less than met the eye. In the first place, the right of membership in labor unions will not apply to the country's 2 million "nonresident" black workers, a group that includes not only those from neighboring countries but also those whose legal residence is in the country's artificially created "tribal homelands." Moreover, no all-white unions will be required to take in black members, and no employers will be obliged to pay blacks and whites equally or to integrate company faculties if they...
...Capitulation." The skit concludes as Philip and the talk show's two other guests, a Labor Party representative (Chris Clemenson) and the British Minister of Science (Brian McCue), stand about in awkward silence until Philip raises his glass in a toast. "My health," he says...