Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true in the labor-relations arena." Bieber's 1.1 < million-member union thereupon served notice last week, well before its labor contract expires on Sept. 14, that the No. 2 U.S. automaker would be the U.A.W.'s priority target in seeking a new three-year pact. The designation was meant to put increased bargaining pressure on the target company, a pattern that in years past meant a settlement with Ford would quickly be applied to GM and Chrysler as well. But that is no longer the case: bargaining this year could be the most complicated -- and perhaps the roughest...
...McCall's earnings more than doubled last year, to $4.9 million. In July Lewis dazzled the financial community by selling McCall to the John Crowther Group, a British textilemaker. The buyer paid $63 million and agreed to assume $32 million in debts owed by McCall. For TLC, the deal meant a phenomenal 80-to-1 return on its initial $1 million investment...
...work in a slaughterhouse, then switched to a job at a leather- processing factory. It was punishing work, and it meant a three-mile walk to and from the plant, but Cornell hardly missed a day. Though his family grew to include 13 children, he managed to keep them all clothed, warm and fed. They never took public aid. "You were ashamed to be on welfare then," recalls Minnie, who sometimes worked as a domestic. "There was a stigma attached to it." They lived in the central ward of Newark, among stable families headed by bus drivers, sanitation workers...
Touborg said the fellowships are "meant to encourage scholarly work and provide support for talented young researchers." She added that in the long run, the fellowships may "generate increased interest in careers in academia...
...Bender follows Columbia's history, he tells a tale of how, in the late 1800s, higher education became more important to society but never capitulated to the code of the surrounding streets. Change would have meant a more open admissions policy and a more independent faculty, but Columbia resisted change. It's an incredible story, albeit a disheartening...