Word: meagher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only the second minute of the game, Peter Marzo shoveled the third B.U. rebound over a sprawled Petrovek to put the Terriers out in front at 2:23. Harvard came back, however, three minutes later, thanks to a pair of Terrier penalties to Jerry Gryp (3:18) and Rick Meagher...
Kevin O'Donoghue fired a slap shot from the blue line at 4:17 that beat Terrier goalie Pat Devlin cleanly, and gave Harvard a short-lived tie. Petrovek kept the Crimson in it with a couple of flashy saves on Mike Eruzione and later Terry Meagher, but B.U. was treated to one rebound too many, and at 15:25 Meagher (Terry) tucked the puck into the left corner on another power play for a 2-1 first period lead...
...Meagher and Lawrence Wallace, a tough labor negotiator hired from the Knight chain, have concentrated their efforts on the Post's labor costs, which are scheduled to rise by $5 million this year alone. Despite union opposition to labor-saving machinery, the paper bought new photographic composition equipment and began installing it in administrative offices two floors above the pressroom. It also started training about 125 employees to produce the paper during a walkout. Much of that instruction was received at the Newspaper Production and Research Center, an impressively equipped printing school in Oklahoma City supported by the Post...
...Post does not seem anxious to have them back. Although the strike is costing the paper as much as $100,000 a day in lost advertising and extra logistical expenses, Meagher has been arguing for the company's "right to publish," and he plans to file a civil suit for damages against the employees who trashed the presses. Although the American Newspaper Guild is insisting that the editorial employees should join the other unions in supporting the strike, the Post unit of the Guild has voted 270 to 251 not to do so. A number of journalists say they...
...bitch, I wish this weren't going on," complained harried Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee. Yet nonunion workers were using the new composition equipment to produce a fairly creditable facsimile of the prestrike Post, and some of Bradlee's colleagues were less troubled by the siege. Remarked Meagher as two female secretaries tended one of the paper's giant presses: "They get a hell of a bang out of making those big machines...