Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been able to play off one against the other. Last year a Sacramento local passed over its own business representative to elect Outsider Wilson as its negotiator. His influence growing, the San Francisco leader went on to play a militant role in a five-week strike involving 15 northern California painters' locals. The upshot: a settlement giving the area's painters $6.51 hourly in pay and fringe benefits, highest scale...
...northern end of the border, the Hungarians have already dug up the mines and replaced them with a highly sophisticated-and far less conspicuous -electronic surveillance system...
...shut down. That left fewer than 40 branches-including two run by New York's First National City Bank and by the Bank of Nova Scotia-still open in all the Irish Republic. Beyond that, while Ulstermen may not ordinarily feel friendly toward the Irish Republic, apparently Northern Ireland's bank clerks are sympathetic to their compeers there. Result: more than half of Northern Ireland's 401 banks and branches also shut down...
...Since Northern Ireland is still part of the United Kingdom, it could keep going with British pounds flown in from English banks. The independent Irish Republic has no such thing going for it; Eire has its own pound which, even though it is worth as much as Britain's, is not interchangeable. When word of the impending bank strike got around, depositors lined up for blocks, withdrew some $31 million before the vaults could swing shut on a remaining $775 million. That left some $322 million in out-of-bank circulation, just enough, by most estimates, to keep...
Although these programs are nothing new to Northern liberals, it would be unfair to say that Brooke has no positive ideas to contribute. He proposes a national training corps staffed by thousands of professional teachers and a foreign business corps of American businessmen. While he follows Democratic lines closely, he justifies his preference for Republicanism on old adage that the "Republican Party offers a permanent cure rather than temporary relief...