Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wishes. The first big contract, for 37,000 oil, chemical and atomic workers, expires two weeks before Carter takes office. Next comes textiles. Steel follows, but that is expected to be peaceful; an experimental no-strike agreement will govern negotiations. In December comes potential trouble: coal and railroads. United Mine Workers negotiators are already talking up wage increases...
Carter may have some new faces to contend with in labor. Mine Workers President Arnold Miller is likely to be challenged by U.M.W. Secretary-Treasurer Harry Patrick in the union election in June. Patrick might stiffen union bargaining demands. AFL-CIO Chief George Meany, 82, could retire this year. His likely successor: Lane Kirkland, the federation's quiet, intellectual secretary-treasurer. There is also a strong possibility that the United Auto Workers, divorced from the AFL-CIO since 1968, may rejoin the federation...
...fell, and what eternal lot is mine...
...yelled at him that mine wouldn't fit him," Stewart said. "We could have put two Hugheses in one pair of my shorts...
...enthusiastically. But it is just as certain that any significant progress toward compatible weapons will be slow. The reason: each country prefers to keep its own scientists and production workers employed on technologically advanced programs. Even so, there have been some encouraging steps. Among them: a new rocket mine-laying system that will use a U.S. mine and a West German rocket, the U.S. purchase of the Belgian MG-58 machine gun, the interchangeable key components of the new U.S. XM-1 tank and the West German Leopard II tank...