Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...career. Now she is director of the 2½-year-old Displaced Homemakers Center in Oakland, Calif. It is one of the two original centers (the other is in Baltimore) that serve as models for more than 50 programs that have sprung up across the country in the past two years...
...tour, encouraged pro-Israel groups to launch a write-in and telegram campaign aimed at the White House and Congress. A group of 33 Jewish intellectuals, including Writers Saul Bellow and Irving Howe, who have criticized the Begin government's inflexibility in the past, sent Carter a letter saying that Washington's support of Cairo's position was "unacceptable...
Last time around, in 1976, the Teamsters won a 34% wage-and-benefit boost over three years, setting quite a precedent-more than 10% a year. Nobody expects the settlement next year to be quite that high. In the past, trucklines have usually won automatic approval from the Interstate Commerce Commission to raise freight rates enough to cover any wage-and-benefit boost they might grant. Now, the ICC, with Administration support, has served notice that it will not be so generous. The Teamsters also are greatly concerned with maintaining their pension funds. It may help that the Administration...
Autos. The really big one. In September, contracts between the 650,000 members of the United Auto Workers and Detroit's Big Three expire. During the past two decades, the union has struck one or another of the companies each time around; early speculation is that this year its prime target will be GM. Main demands will be for inflation protection and a shorter work week, but the liberal union's stance could harden if Carter moves to cut social spending...
...more than the monetary reserves of most nations. Instead, its motives appear to be pride and politics. A rising stock price confers more prestige on corporate managers than one that is just high. Despite IBM's dazzling record of sales and profit gains, its stock, adjusted for past splits, sells for a bit less than it did ten years ago. Reason: institutional and pension fund managers hold about as many IBM shares as they care to, since they want to maintain balanced portfolios, and the stock has been too expensive for all but the richest individual investors; so demand...