Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mine settlement is certain to lift the price of coal-as well as steel, electricity and myriad consumer products-adding further to oppressive living costs, which are now rising at an annual rate of close to 12%. The pact must still be ratified by the entire membership, a new union procedure that will take between eight and ten days and guarantees that the strike will paralyze the mines for at least three weeks. U.M.W. President Arnold Miller has repeatedly stated that his men will not return to the pits before the voting is completed...
...quiet assistance of Federal Mediator W.J. Usery Jr., negotiators for the U.M.W. and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association led by General Counsel Guy Farmer came close to reaching tentative agreement early last week. But at week's end they still had not been able to wrap up a pact, and though some hope of a quick settlement remained, no time was left to stop the strike. Any new contract must be ratified by miners around the nation, a process that will take ten days or so. Miller last week firmly closed the door on any possibility that the miners...
...pact really is signed and ratified, the nation can only heave a sigh of relief. Peace seems to have been won essentially by the coal operators caving in to the union's insistence on wage and benefit increases roughly equal to the 39% over three years that 1.4 million steelworkers won last April, plus a long list of costly noneconomic demands. Even so, those demands are better met without a strike than after a walkout that could have crippled the economy...
...Whenever a storm with thunder and lightning moved over the sea, he would hurry out to the top of the cliffs as if he had a pact of friendship with the forces of nature, or even went on into the oakwood where the lightning had split a tall tree from top to bottom, which led him to murmur: 'How great, how mighty, how wonderful!' " Thus a friend remembered the wanderings...
...with Prussia. The survivor's instinct could only have deepened as he saw his family cut down by firing squad and assassin: his younger brother Maximilian as Napoleon Ill's cat's paw in Mexico, his son Rudolf as a result of a crime passionnel suicide pact at Mayerling, his wife at Geneva, his nephew Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo...