Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...damage its deteriorating trade position. Last year Ford lost 1.2 million man-hours to "unofficial" walkouts, often led by only a handful of professional soreheads. Lately the company has hoped to buy its way out of the strike nightmare by offering its workers a simple tit-for-tat: extra money for no wildcat strikes. The result is a crippling strike against the no-strike clause...
...annual rate of about 6%, faster than in any other Common Market country. Consumer costs have been swollen further by huge tax increases designed to dampen demand. Inflation has debased the currency to the point where, for the first time in years, black marketeers are selling francs for stronger money at discounts of 5% or more. The economy's weakness has so greatly affected the country's political power the French are no longer campaigning in world banking councils for an increase in the price of gold. Because the strike was brief, the French franc rose slightly...
...corporation. Last month, Barnes opened negotiations with the Buffalo Bills, the team that drafted Simpson, by demanding a three-year $600,000 contract, plus "a very substantial fringe benefit"-most probably a cut of the team's profits. Barnes, cried Bills Owner Ralph Wilson, "wants more money for Simpson than Buffalo netted in its last three years of operation...
...Money Witness. Baring-Gould's literary detective work is clearly intended for confirmed Nero Wolfe fans. Since Wolfe books have sold an average of 20,000 copies each in hard-cover and there are 12 million of them in print in paperback, that makes for quite a sizable group. Still, not everybody can be interested in such minutiae as the diameter of the globe in Wolfe's office (32⅜") and the derivation of his special breed of albino orchids (from Paphiopedilurn lawrenceanum hyeanum...
...rich of Texas to bail out the new poor of New England's finest. Hap Sharp, a Texas sportsman who once raced the Chaparral car for General Motors came to the rescue. In hopes of raising money, the club had sent appeals to various alumni and polo players. Sharp responded with a gift of six ponies. Vince Mulford, another Texan, donated a seventh...