Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union in a Taft-Hartley proceeding, Combs pointed out that coal is still being exported, that substantial stockpiles exist and that negotiations between union and management had resumed. (Later he admitted that the talks were only preliminary. "We were just cussing each other as usual.") Combs said the union leadership would do whatever the court ordered. "But I can't speak for 20-some districts and more than 700 locals." Replied Judge Robinson: "You've put your finger right on it." After the hearing adjourned, the judge, as expected, granted the restraining order. With that, U.S. marshals started...
...owns more than 75% of the National Bank of Washington (assets: $682 million), real estate in the capital and a Western fuel company, may have to sell some of its holdings. Perhaps most troubling of all, the U.M.W. is in a state of near anarchy, having overwhelmingly rejected its leadership's call to ratify the proposed contract. Says one veteran union staffer: "We've never had a precedent of this kind. There is very grave danger...
...Republican parties also ratified, the Communists will henceforth have a direct role in government-not with Cabinet portfolios, but as full, acknowledged partners in Andreotti's parliamentary majority. As Berlinguer put it jubilantly, Italy's big (1.7 million members) Communist Party has reached "the threshold of national leadership responsibility...
...international recession. Relations between Washington and its two most important economic allies, West Germany and Japan, both of which are crucially dependent on exports for economic growth, have already deteriorated alarmingly. But doomsday is not inevitable. For more than three decades the world has looked to Washington for economic leadership, and now it is begging for it-almost desperately. There is no time to lose...
...feeling in Europe that Washington is interested in Europe when it wants something from Europe, and that otherwise Washington has its own problems and doesn't care much." Geneva Banker Nicolas Krul adds: "What we see is a key country simply giving up its role of economic leadership and mismanaging the world's most important reserve currency...