Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will give members an 18% raise over the first three years (amounting to $68 per worker per week), guarantee jobs for all 1,508 regular members and reduce manning levels through attrition. Ten other unions idled by the strike were expected to return to work as well. Indeed, a major breakthrough in the talks came last week when heads of the other unions gathered to hear a report on the status of negotiations from Labor Lawyer Theodore Kheel, who used his role as a consultant to the unions to become unofficial mediator in the lengthy dispute. At that meeting...
...leading exponents of the "tits and bums" genre, as it is known on Fleet Street, are Publisher Rupert Murdoch's Sun (circ. 4 million) and the Daily Mirror (circ. 3.9 million). Each is fondled by twice as many customers a day as all four of Britain's major quality dailies combined. Total circulation for the Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times and Guardian is 2.1 million...
...surge may prove to be only statistical. Productivity figures, Stokes concedes, "bounce around a lot." But even if the figures swing down again, U.S. industry could brandish a new study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on the relative competitiveness of 24 major industrial countries. It found that, largely as a consequence of the dollar's drop and rising world prices, the U.S. now enjoys the lowest production costs and highest profit margins of all the 24. Steeply rising U.S. export and import prices relative to all other OECD countries, including Japan and West Germany, provided...
...Corp., have moved into the area and built plants. The seedy waterfront is undergoing a face-lifting, and many of the city's Victorian buildings have been transformed from shabby relics into stylist shops, restaurants and dwellings. But Burlington's boom was threatened in 1976 when a major shopping-center developer the Pyramid Companies, decided to build an 82-store complex on an 80-acre hayfield in the town of Williston (pop. 4,000) only five miles away...
Thomas McGuane's first three novels (The Sporting Club, The Bushwhacked Piano and Ninety-Two in the Shade) certified him as a young man on the way to becoming a Major American Writer, one of the four or five best of his generation (he is now 38). McGuane, ran the critics' early form, was Hemingway by way of the drug generation...