Word: much
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editorial matter, let us quote Brooklyn-born but much-traveled Guccione again: "What Americans think is kinky is right on target in Britain." This doesn't mean we'll run as much sadomasochistic stuff here as we do there. As we shake down, we'll tailor our U.S. edition more to American tastes. For Guccione, if nothing else, is a learner. Why, just the other day he didn't hesitate to ask a dining companion what eggs Benedict were. -Penthouse...
...that reason, the Administration is determined to stay out of labor disputes. Labor Secretary George Shultz emphasized its stand a week before the strike at a meeting of the Business Council, the elite group of 200 business leaders headed by G.E. Chairman Fred Borch. Briefing newsmen, Shultz predicted much labor unrest ahead, but declared that the Administration would not often intervene. Then he turned to Borch and said with a sort of locker-room bonhomie: "So, Fred, don't you come around." With a bit more edge in his voice, Borch shot back: "And don't you come...
...trouble with General Electric as the testing ground for the President's hands-off policy is that the strike is as much ideological as economic. The enemy is what the unions call "Boulwarism," a labor-relations strategy unveiled in 1948 by Lemuel R. Boulware, then a G.E. vice president and now retired. Boulwarism is based on two tenets. First, the company should make a "firm, fair" offer at the start of negotiations and refuse to budge from it. Second, the company should engage in vigorous "employee marketing" to sell the merits of its offer...
...costly and would induce many people to stop working and go on welfare. Shultz suggested a middle course of providing "work incentives" that would enable families to keep a major part of their wages without losing their rights to welfare funds. To protests that it would cost too much, he replied, "$1 billion isn't anything if it will make the program work." Nixon agreed...
...Justice Department will add a new consumer division, to be staffed with a score or more of lawyers and economists. It will operate much like the present antitrust division, filing suits against companies...