Word: ltd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...threatened suspension is the result of a complicated and increasingly bitter dispute between the newspapers and their unruly production workers. Unauthorized work stoppages and slowdowns have cost the papers 12 million copies and $5.6 million so far this year. Infuriated, the Toronto-based Thomson Organization Ltd., which has owned the Sunday Times since 1959 and the Times since 1967, has forced a showdown. Thomson executives announced last April that they would give the unions until Nov. 30 to agree to sweeping reforms in work procedures, or else the papers would close down until they relented. All of Fleet Street...
Times Newspapers Ltd. Managing Director Marmaduke Hussey insists that even if the Times suspends, it will not be gone forever: "Our aim is to build the Times up and keep it going." Bracing for at least a temporary loss of their daily breakfast companion, some readers have offered touching pledges of loyalty. Wrote David Fitzpatrick from Sheffield: "A day without the Times is a desolate day, but if you must leave us for a time in order to put your house in order, so be it. We will be waiting when you return...
...hysterectomy. In one clinic the staff cleaned procedure rooms between patients by wiping up blood with wet tissues. One doctor, Arnold Bickham of the Water Tower Reproductive Center, went from one abortion to the next without washing his hands or donning sterile gloves. Another doctor, Carlos Baldoceda of Biogenetics Ltd., performed an abortion while a nurse gave him what the Sun-Times described as a "sensual massage," and on another occasion did several procedures after drinking champagne at a clinic party...
...Labor gains, they also indicate strong Tory support, particularly in shifting Midlands districts where British elections can be won and lost. And Callaghan has problems ahead in persuading intransigent workers to accept the wisdom of his incomes policy. Last week 57,000 assembly-line workers at Ford Motor Co. Ltd., in the seventh week of a strike for higher pay, rejected a company offer of a 16.5% increase. Meanwhile, workers in the public sector, from teachers to trash men, are also pushing for raises of up to 40%. If Callaghan hangs tough and a winter of strikes follows, the result...
...last week Britain got another T. and B. tabloid, a near clone of the Sun and Mirror. Express Newspapers Ltd., publishers of the once middlebrow and increasingly titillating Daily Express (circ. 2.5 million), launched the 32-page Daily Star (initial circ., 1.25 million). Selling for 6p (roughly 12?), slightly less than the Sun and the Mirror, the Star is being printed on underused Express presses in Manchester and distributed only in the North and the Midlands for the moment. Penetration of the rest of England is planned for the spring. Says Star Editor in Chief Derek Jameson...