Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mating seems to offer more time for comedy than resolution, and A Touch of Class ends predictably, with a dash of prefabricated melancholy. Melvin Frank's direction, like the script he wrote with Jack Rose, was apparently devised to give his actors maximum room to romp. A wise choice, since Jackson and Segal are the ones with most of the real style and-yes-class...
Late last year American ran into trouble during contract negotiations with its independent Allied Pilots Association. Though pilots at other lines fly 80 hours a month, pilots at American have a contract limit of 75 hours, and they had been adamant in refusing flights that put them over that maximum. Management wanted them to work beyond that limit when bad weather, mechanical breakdowns or other problems made it necessary. Miffed, American's pilots began a "rulebook slowdown," taking their sweet time for routine equipment checkouts and throttling back on flights to arrive late. During the slowdown from December...
...hospital workers' contract includes an increase in maximum salary from $137.85 per week to around $150. They also ask that the City pay 75 per cent Blue Cross premiums...
...Cambridge City Council is expected to vote tonight on a resolution aimed at insuring that the establishment of the "maximum number of blue collar jobs for Cambridge residents" will be a goal in developing the controversial Kendall Square Urban Renewal Area...
...conserve fuel, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter has ordered state troopers to drive slower and go on fewer highway patrols. On the Pennsylvania and Ohio Turnpikes, gas stations are allotting a maximum of ten to twelve gallons of gas to each customer. From Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where panicky residents begin queuing up at gas pumps at 6 a.m., to Los Angeles, where some stations are getting 51? a gallon, the long-feared gasoline shortage is finally making itself felt...