Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately for Callaghan, Britain's union-oriented labor laws do not empower the Prime Minister to order a cooling-off period when a crippling strike looms. The government also lacks the sophisticated mediation and arbitration machinery that has long been a part of U.S. labor laws. Beyond that, top-ranking union leaders now appear to have relatively little control over an ever more aggressive rank and file. Many public workers declined to return to work even after the official one-day demonstration of strength had ended...
...racquetmen will attempt to defeat Princeton today for the first time in three years. The convincing dunking of Navy bodes well for the Harvard nine, which needs to win the match in order to have any hope of capturing the national title...
...ACSR argues that introducing shareholder resolutions to companies operating in South Africa should be a "last resort" action because, in the words of one of its members, "More good comes from working with companies than in shooting off a rocket and having nothing left we can do." In order to identify the proper way to take such a momentous step as a shareholder resolution, the ACSR distinguishes between "action" and "information" resolutions. The ACSR considers the former, which asks companies to take steps to further racial progress in South Africa, "relatively ineffective." The latter type--considerably more effective...
...crisis point comes for Collins when he must close out one final account in order to regain his Man of the Year slot. Collins isn't worried. "Everyone's got a sob story," he tells his account. "Don't tell me about your deals. I know what you are. Your wife knows what you are. Your kids know what you are . . ." But how far can he push it? Collins goes to the man's house. The TV is blaring, Merv Griffith is ranting about Jacqueline Susanne, a great artist. He wanders through the suspiciously quiet house--a prefab chalet sitting...
...Harvard University Press recently published Dominguez's exhaustive study of Cuba in the twentieth century, "Cuba: Order and Revolution." The book is "an inquiry into how each of Cuba's three regimes in the past century tried to establish order, each one's claims to power," Dominguez said yesterday...