Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...library workers are members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which last week ratified a new pact with Brown following a separate strike by nearly 350 service workers lasting over 100 days. That strike, which mustered an unprecedented level of student support, came to an end only after eleven students blocked a truck attempting to leave Brown's main dining hall area...
...question about whether the Soviets had the better of the U.S. in the grain sales and the 1975 Helsinki agreement, which confirmed the postwar boundaries of Eastern Europe. The President easily came up with justification for the grain deals but ran into trouble trying to defend the Helsinki pact. He has clearly demonstrated in the past that he understands the realities of Eastern Europe, and he apparently meant to say, as he did several sentences later, that the U.S. "does not concede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union." Ford even had studied lines to this...
...decisive than is popularly thought. But the West Germans also regard Carter as a highly competent, tough and intelligent politician, and are pleased that he has tempered his earlier cries for cuts in the defense budget-a very sensitive matter to the NATO country facing the most threatening Warsaw Pact troops. European officials, moreover, have long known and trusted a number of Carter's foreign affairs advisers, like Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski...
...theology at least since the 1960s. After signing a new three-year contract that should end the three-week strike of 170,000 auto workers at the Ford Motor Co. in a matter of days, U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock proudly announced a sighting of the promised land. The Ford pact, he announced at a Detroit press conference, "goes far beyond" previous contracts. In fact, he said, "we are on the road to a four-day week. The principle is there...
Perhaps, if one wanted to see it. The new pact adds twelve more days over three years to the 33 paid days off that Ford workers already enjoy-five in the contract's second year and seven in its third. The additional days off fell far short of the twelve per year that the union had initially demanded, and the new holidays will have to be sandwiched between two working days, rather than added to weekends or existing holidays. But when Detroit and the union next wrangle in 1979, the U.A.W. could use its 1976 Ford contract...