Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon Administration pleaded with labor leaders to make a voluntary end to existing strikes in order to help the economy pick up at the maximum possible speed. The most devastating strike under way is the West Coast dock stoppage, now eight weeks old, led by Harry Bridges. It is likely to continue. Bridges wired Nixon that the freeze "favors the rich," and he added: "We are with you in your desire to stop inflation in our country, but it is wrong to pick on the workers, who suffer first and the most from inflation...
...Administration experts have already started speculating about the shape of Phase 2. There will be neither a return to the pre-freeze status quo nor permanent imposition of a thoroughgoing control system. Instead, the President is likely to pick one or more intermediate devices within the first 60 days of the freeze period, thus leaving the final 30 days for setting up whatever administrative machinery is required. He will probably make use of wage-price review boards for various industries, selective controls for others, economic sanctions through withholding or awarding Government buying contracts, and just plain jawboning. Quite possibly...
...penalty rate of $917 a day. Federal agencies in Buffalo have been in chaos due to the delays. Leases on present space in other buildings are expiring, and one agency has attempted to move in despite the fact that the building is unfinished. The office workers must pick their way through mud and construction material to reach their still incomplete quarters. The role of the Mafia in the construction of the building-first in slowing down work, then in Cammillieri's speedup-is dismissed with studied ignorance by the contractor. Said Bateson Superintendent Paul Boyd: "Cammillieri kept Local...
...Days. Even if Ky were to throw all his energies into a campaign, such a race could only have a grotesquely one-sided result. Ky's support is mainly among the military, northern Catholic refugees, and some Buddhists, plus whatever votes he might pick up from Minh's anti-Thieu supporters. Deprived of any chance of unseating Thieu by political means, South Viet Nam's voters could well turn to other methods. Last week, a crippled war veteran doused himself with gasoline and set himself ablaze on a downtown street to protest Ky's earlier provisional...
...take along the dog's blanket and an old slipper. When I said goodbye, I felt as if I were sending my son to camp for the first time. When they brought her back, they pointed out she had missed her weekly shampoo-and asked if they could pick her up the next day and wash...