Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Governor Mario Cuomo, his wife Matilda, two of their children and the family dog were upstairs in the executive mansion in Albany last week when a neighbor, Julian Quarles, 25, paid them an unexpected visit. Sometime between midnight and 7 a.m., Quarles climbed a 7-ft.-high fence outside the house, broke a window to unlock the front door, and walked in, unnoticed by the two guards stationed outside. He took a video recorder, a silver punch bowl, two candlesticks, a tray, a coffee urn and two platters...
...scholars. Though Congress must first formally appropriate the money, many legislators are convinced that the Peace Institute is at hand. "The price is right," explains Kansas Congressman Dan Glickman, a Democrat. "The funding for the first year is about one-fifth the cost of a single F-15." Around midnight, after a full day of work without a dinner break, the peace-loving conferees were supplied with one of war's little horrors: the latest in C rations, featuring ham loaf with beans and tomato sauce...
When the U.A.W and General Motors failed to reach agreement on a new contract by midnight of Sept. 14, the union called its workers out on a selective strike against key GM facilities. The union was trying to have the greatest impact on GM production with the smallest amount of work lost for its members. The selective strike, allegedly authorized by the U.A.W. because of pressing local grievances, originally affected only 13 facilities, employing 62,700 workers. By no coincidence those plants turn out nearly half of GM's total production, including such hot-selling models as the Pontiac...
Soon after midnight, picket lines began forming at GM plants from California to New Jersey. "Grab a sign and get in line," shouted union organizers at workers as they poured out of the GM factory in Pontiac, Mich. The signs read: U.A.W. ON STRIKE FOR JOB SECURITY and ONE DAY HEADLINES, THE NEXT DAY BREADLINES. At a Chevrolet plant in Van Nuys, Calif., most of the 4,045 U.A.W. members walked off the job, and the facility shut down. The company was forced to cancel two Saturday shifts at its Buick assembly plant in Flint, Mich...
...replace annual 3% pay increases with lump-sum payments totaling $900 during the first two years of the contract. The two sides then went into marathon sessions, but progress was slow. By late Friday night, Bieber saw that there was scant chance of reaching a final agreement by the midnight deadline...