Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...custom. Though lawyers may still appear personally, they will now be encouraged to apply by mail and receive their admission certificates from the postman, not the Chief Justice. The change will satisfy efficiency experts, but somehow it gives the whole enterprise the feel of a mail-order diploma mill...
Students have played an increasingly important role in the campaign, not as canvassers or volunteers, but as an issue. The deaths at Kent State, the wave of bombings, the Weatherman fall offensive have all provided grist for the conservative mill. All across the country liberal candidates are shying away from defending students. No one can really predict the effects of an Agnew tongue lashing on a candidate and liberals in general are taking no chances. Check out the store front office of Ted Kennedy in Boston if you don't believe...
...music into feelings of lost prestige, embarrassment, and finally defeat. In the mountain towns of north Georgia, though, it's not obvious at first. Not until you have talked to someone like Skeeter for a while, and he tells you how he doesn't mind working at the textile mill, and how good the women are and how much he loves the South. And he keeps telling you over and over again...
...that, Abel gave his "solemn pledge" that a cost-of-living escalator, which the U.S.W. gave up in 1959, will be restored. He will also propose that the entire steel industry shut down for two weeks' vacation in the summer. That would be a costly proposition to the mill managers, who would have to bank their furnaces during that time...
Catch Up Is Not Enough. Steelworkers used to set the pace for labor. Says Morris Burmmit, a union local president at the Jones & Laughlin mill in Aliquippa, Pa.: "Now we don't want just to catch up. We want to set the pace again." The average steelworker earns $4.19 an hour in base pay, or $170.53 weekly. If he earned that year round, as few do, his annual earnings would be $8,860-or $739 less than the auto worker's average income. The auto workers are now in the fourth week of their own strike...