Word: locked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Confederation covering almost all of the country's 3,050,000 workers. Before the agreement was signed, Sweden for four weeks had risked a crisis that could have crippled its economy. Labor demanded an inflationary 11 % -a-year pay increase, and management countered by setting a date to lock workers out of 90% of Sweden's industries. Only the cozy personal relations between the chairmen of the opposing federations, who have been negotiating with each other for so long that sometimes they take their wives along and talk aboard a yacht, resolved the deadlock. The settlement may prove...
...have been growing restive under the lackluster rule of Conservative President Guillermo León Valencia. During the campaign, Rojas drew enthusiastic crowds with his vivid lectures on economics, in which he argued that the way to get the peso on a par with the dollar was to "lock up all Colombians with money outside the country and not let them go until they bring back the $3 billion they have hidden abroad." His daughter Maria Eugenia Rojas de Moreno Diaz, 30, who ran for the Senate, turned up in the smaller towns to buy rice, yucca and corn...
Perhaps the warders were right about Mister Six. No one, neither the King of France nor the Republican revolutionaries nor Napoleon himself, knew what to do with the Marquis de Sade except lock him up. And no one has quite known what to make of him since...
...again objectives were confused and the Charles, caught in the middle, lost out. Since the Basin was designed promarily for recreational purposes the lock in the dam has to be opened--more frequently now than ever--for motor boats. Each lock-opening admits salt water, and the wedge of salt that gets into the basin prevents oxygen from circulating throughout the water to treat the sewage. And so the Charles remains polluted...
...philosopher symbolizes the time when the knowledge explosion began forcing universities to abandon the ambition of teaching every student everything, and made them narrow down to what be came the "required courses" of modern schools. Now, all over the U.S., colleges and universities are scrutinizing the value of these lock-step requirements and, to a surprising degree, are dumping them in favor of letting students form their own education patterns...