Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This small settlement buoyed the union?and also cheered up Labor Secretary Ray Marshall. Communications between the union and the B.C.O.A. had broken down over the previous weekend. Here, thought Marshall and his mediators, was another path to try?using the P. & M. agreement as a pattern for a national contract with the U.M.W. Marshall's aides began meeting separately with the two sides at Labor Department headquarters on Monday afternoon...
Later that day the coal operators turned down the Pittsburg & Midway settlement as a pattern setter. Said one B.C.O.A. leader, in snide reference to P. & M.'s ownership by Big Oil: "No filling-station operation is going to influence these negotiations...
...Wednesday, Mediators Wayne Horovitz and William Hobgood had persuaded the U.M.W. bargaining council to accept the P. & M. settlement as its own pattern setter. The pressure was now seriously coming to bear on the B.C.O.A. The mine owners, who had only reluctantly answered President Carter's initial plea for new negotiations after their deal with Miller collapsed, had feared such a shift all along. They sensed the U.M.W.'s perverse strength: since the rank and file would not necessarily follow their leader, logic dictated that the Government try to make the more organized opposing party bend toward settlement...
Store owners arrange their offerings in various patterns to specify how and for how long the lion is to dance. Lee says the more complicated the pattern of oranges, tangerines and lettuce that the owner displays, the longer the lion is supposed to dance. A gift set up on a table or chair symbolizes that the lion has to cross a bridge and demands a dance exhibiting greater skills than are ordinarily required...
...diversity which is based on financial aid, and they may quickly grow tired of that burden. Ultimately it seems that if Harvard cannot find a way of stabilizing tuition, it may revert to the ultra-elitism which characterized it 50 years ago. Although it seems inevitable, the pattern of annual increases must not be accepted with resignation...