Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps other states' as well. There would be international peace-keeping forces under U.N. supervision in Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights-which Israel and the Arabs could monitor. In addition, Israel and the U.S. would negotiate a treaty, comparable to the mutual defense pact with Japan or NATO, that would pledge Washington to move to Israel's defense in case of attack. Arab states, which worry about Israel's military power, might want-and should receive-similar assurances from Washington in case they were subjected to a surprise assault...
...University administration and the union representing the school's dining hall and maintenance workers have faced each other in a contract stalemate that still seems as far from settlement as it did when it first began. Until last week, the two sides had not met to discuss a new pact since negotiations broke off on September 30. And after only a few hours of discussion last Tuesday, the negotiators called it quite once again, because neither the university nor the union appeared willing to compromise on its original position...
Leyland's car workers voted to replace this chaotic state of affairs with a single companywide labor pact, to be negotiated by November 1979. The centralized agreement is to provide that all Leyland plants pay the same wage for comparable jobs. Negotiating the contract will not be easy: the unskilled production-line workers who belong to the Transport and General Workers Union argue that they ought to be paid as much as the skilled craftsmen represented by the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, while the A.U.E.W. is determined to maintain the pay differentials. But the vote at least staved...
...dynamo who has proved himself as a manager: as chief of the 20,000 employee battery-making Chloride Group, he almost quintupled profits in five years to $47.5 million. He won the Guardian Young Businessman of the Year award in 1975. Though he will have to negotiate a companywide pact, Edwardes is a fervent believer in decentralized management who pledges to use "ruthless logic" in organizing executive teams to run Leyland as a group of "profit centers." He had better hurry...
...realization by the reporter that he is dependent on the good will of his source to better serve his readers in the long run. If he violates the contract, he could well end up alienating a vital source. This contract is not legally binding; it is simply an informal pact...