Word: lumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though 62,700 of the company's 350,000 workers were involved in the selective strike action, GM and the U.A.W. continued to bargain through the weekend at General Motors headquarters in Detroit. The company had originally offered a lump-sum payment of $600 per worker in the first year of the contract and a $300 one in the second, in addition to a rather vague plan to protect existing jobs. The union pushed for an improvement of both offers, and by late in the week the differences between the two sides were narrowing. Once an agreement...
...kill the bill. Reagan has said he finds the version passed by the House unacceptable because it includes an expensive, unlimited pledge by the Federal Government to reimburse states for the cost of the reforms. He told Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming that a flat $4 billion lump-sum grant might get his approval. "You give me that," Reagan told Simpson. "That can be an acceptable bill." The delighted Simpson passed this news to Speaker O'Neill, who replied, "Send the damn thing over. We'll go to conference." Despite the obituaries, the bill was thus...
Reagan telephoned Cohen, saying that he liked the build-down idea. But Pentagon and NSC officials did not. Reagan was interested in the possibility of collaboration with moderates on the Hill; his advisers, however, were concerned about the sub stance of the build-down proposal, which would lump bombers and cruise missiles together with ballistic missiles. That feature, known as "comprehensiveness" or "aggregation" of bombers and missiles, might have helped...
...greeted the news of David Kennedy's apparently drug-related death [NATION, May 7] with contempt. My disdain gave way to a lump in my throat after reading your report. Sirhan Sirhan has murdered again...
...from being a lump of clay or a blank slate. Brazelton conceives of a newborn with a distinct personality who has an impact on the parent-child relationship in his own right. This conception relieves some of the anxiety of parents who feel they alone are responsible for their child's character, and who cannot understand how anything could go wrong when they are doing everything right...