Word: outlaw
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...action group, COPE, awards Schweiker a 100% rating and made him the first Pennsylvania Republican Senator to win its endorsement for re-election (in 1974). Among other things, he voted to repeal Section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act, the right-to-work provision that allows states to outlaw the closed shop. He was a co-sponsor of the original Humphrey-Hawkins Bill, which would have committed the Government to take potentially inflationary budgetary steps to achieve full employment. The liberal Americans for Democratic Action gives him an 89% rating, the same as ADA President George McGovern, who wryly...
...OUTLAW JOSEY WALES
Selling Catsup. The outlaw-desperado theme pervades L.A. rock. Even in a city with dozens of thriving clubs and recording studios, rock's musical desperados can be hard pressed to scratch out a living. The Chicago-born Zevon did a stint at a Los Angeles advertising agency, composing a jingle for Camaro cars as well as ditties for Boone's Farm Wines. "They wanted folky, Gordon Lightfoot commercials," he remembers. "It was immensely profitable (up to $3,000 per ad) but selling catsup and cheap wine is truly abrasive to the soul...
...Coherent!" snorted Gelsomino. "I suppose you saw what your man Fanfani said the other day at Grosseto: that the Christian Democrats may have been mistaken in not denying the Communists their freedom and not trying to outlaw the party. He's gone crazy...
...tougher strictures on the multinationals. Nonetheless, the code does perform a useful service as the first major statement by the industrialized nations about how they expect their corporations to behave elsewhere. The code may also inspire some developing countries to enact up-to-date business legislation that would outlaw exploitative business practices-just as they have long been forbidden in the nations where the multinationals were born...