Word: manifestation
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...feel this is the most appropriate form of representation that will most assuredly insure that Quincy House views are manifest," Paul C. Clements '82-2, House Committee member, said yesterday...
...steel glut is worst in Western Europe. Says Common Market Commission President Roy Jenkins: "The steel industry is in a state of manifest crisis." While stockpiles have been climbing, prices have dropped about 10% to 15% since last year. In the past five years the industry has lost an estimated 145,000 jobs. The Europeans have long had a thinly veiled cartel arrangement that included voluntary quotas on steel production. But when the market went into a free-fall slump early this year, the agreement fell apart, and many companies began scrambling to undercut their competitors. Firms were often selling...
...stem the tide of the mining protest, and tensions were further heightened when a runaway coal car killed eight men in the Halemba Mine near Katowice. By midweek, 200,000 workers from some 22 mines and 50 factories had allied themselves with a central strike committee at the Manifest Lipcowy Mine in the southern town of Jastrzebie. To the 21 Gdansk demands, the miners added several of their own, including improved safety measures and an end to the four-shift "brigade" system begun last year to enable the mines to operate 24 hours a day. Though workers in each shift...
...reassuring sign was the manifest desire on both sides to avoid a violent confrontation. Gierek well knows the danger of using force. In 1970, his predecessor used force against the rioting Gdansk workers. Dozens died in the clashes, and Gomulka was finally forced out. Confronted with similar food-price riots in 1976, Gierek wisely backed down on prices rather than resort to massive force. So far, there is no indication that he intends to reverse that policy...
...wildest country and among the wildest people we have ever seen," wrote one of Conquistador Hernan Cortes' commanders about Guatemala in 1524. It was only the first of many unflattering stereotypes of Central America. In the U.S. in the 1850s, the heyday of Manifest Destiny, the region was regarded chiefly as an inviting target for territorial expansion. By the turn of the century, the United Fruit Co. was cheered on as it went buccaneering through the region, buying governmental favors for the sake of more and cheaper bananas. Bananas, in fact, were the raison...