Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until the last minute, it looked as if bargainers for the nation's trucking industry and 270,000 Teamsters union drivers and loaders had a deal. But just before the Saturday midnight deadline, the union broke off negotiations and announced a "selective" strike against a few major trucking companies...
By avoiding a nationwide strike and exempting military and medical supplies, the union obviously hoped to thwart any move to impose an 80-day cooling-off period under the Taft-Hartley Act. To get a court order under the law, the President must show that a strike will endanger the...
Throughout the night the ship blazed, lighting up the harbor and causing the Cunard Countess to cast off from its neighboring berth and head for the safety of the open sea. The intense heat melted through the blue-and-white vessel's metal plating and buckled its superstructure. Authorities...
There were doubts and hints of problems ahead in the words they spoke; yet there was also a true eloquence in their short pleas. Carter had not finished writing his text until a few minutes before the ceremony. His son Jack, who had come up from Georgia the night before...
Ultimately, the success of the Egyptian-Israeli peace will probably depend on Washington. Notes L. Dean Brown, a former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan and now president of the Middle East Institute in Washington: "The main burden [in getting the treaty's terms fulfilled] will once again fall on the...