Word: mammoths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...belong to Histadrut, the giant trade union federation, went to the polls to vote for 1,501 delegates to the next convention. The Labor Party, which has dominated Histadrut since pioneering days, kept control with 56.6% of the vote. This ensures Labor's continued control of a mammoth conglomerate of unions, insurance and pension plans, companies and even banks that controls nearly 25% of Israel's economic production. It also provides the party with a strong power base. Thus Labor and Likud are on a possible collision course: Begin has vowed to strip Histadrut of its ownership...
...biggest headache for farmers is the growing glut of wheat. Last week the Agriculture Department forecast that despite last winter's drought and destructive winds, this year's winter wheat crop would come to 1.53 billion bu., only about 3% less than last year's mammoth harvest. The total crop, including spring wheat (harvested in the fall), is expected to be about 2 billion bu. That would be slightly less than the record 2.15 billion bu. crop in 1976-but still more than U.S. and foreign buyers combined are likely...
Entering the competition, the Crimson was at a decided disadvantage, as it had left all of its wet tee-shirters in Cambridge. A Harvard triumph, then, would require mammoth efforts in the other two events, and this is where the story gets interesting...
...dealing with offensive weapons, froze the U.S. strategic arsenal at 1,710 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine-launched missiles (SLBMS); the Soviet arsenal was set at 2,358 ICBMS and SLBMS. The Russians were allowed a quantitative superiority, as well as the right to keep 308 mammoth launchers (unmatched by anything in the U.S. arsenal), as a balance to America's sophisticated technology in missile accuracy and in MIRVs (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles). These separately targeted war heads can be mounted on a single rocket, thus vastly increasing that launcher's destructive potential...
Videla is determined to wrestle down the unions' "political power and abnormal privileges." Toward that goal, Martinez de Hoz is trying to prune the mammoth state-run industrial sector, a Perón-era albatross that produces less than 10% of Argentina's G.N.P.-and much of the government's debts and deficits. State enterprises employ an estimated 300,000 unnecessary workers. But the Economy Minister's plans to cut bloated staff and sell losing businesses to private firms have run into strong union opposition. When Videla raised the work week of Buenos Aires' huge...