Word: labors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twelve-member commission selected by Jimmy Carter is headed by Dartmouth College President John Kemeny, an eminent mathematician and nuclear expert, and has as members a balance of leaders from the sciences, politics, labor and academe. Nuclear power proponents had hoped that an unbiased investigation would find the Three Mile Island accident such a rare and isolated sequence of equipment failures and human errors as to have no implications for the safety of the other 72 U.S. nuclear power plants or the 88 new plants for which construction permits have been granted. But the commission's report places...
Whatever happens in the immediate future, Begin has plenty of trouble on his hands. His citizenry is dispirited, his country's inflation rate is running at about 100%, and the popularity of the opposition Labor Party is once more on the rise. The lesson of Elon Moreh is that the aspirations of a few thousand nationalist fanatics do not necessarily coincide with the needs of the Israeli people. But it is a lesson that Menachem Begin does not appear ready or willing to accept...
...Western standards, the crimes were relatively minor ones: pimping, consorting with prostitutes, violating customs laws. But the sentences meted out to the 27 prisoners ranged from five to 15 lashes, plus prison terms at hard labor. In preparation for the whippings, an 18-ft. raised platform had been erected. On it was a large A-shaped scaffold, with straps for the prisoner's wrists attached near the top and thick padding along the crossbar to absorb the impact of the whips on their bodies. As viPs looked on, two muscular men pranced about, slashing Malacca canes through...
Next March an unusual name will appear on the list of 17 nominees to the Chrysler Corp. board: Douglas A. Fraser, 62, president of the United Auto Workers. The nomination of this hardy adversary from Big Labor is part of the price that the automaker had to pay last week to win from the union economic concessions essential to corporate survival...
...first election of a U.S. union chief to the board of such a large company may be a symbolic victory for labor, but it will not necessarily set a precedent. Chrysler's plight makes it unique, and this is not a deal that many other companies or other unions will want to accept in better times...