Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once he reads his key and analyzes the play, the defensive lineman reacts -and reacts fast, trying to beat his opponent to the block, catch him off-balance, squirt past him before he can plant himself. To confuse blockers, defenders will "stunt," or loop around each other; they may charge high to hurdle a block, or duck low to "submarine" under. They clutch at shoulder pads and jerseys, trying to spin blockers aside and clear a path to the ballcarrier. They have, in fact, become so adept at slipping blocks that not even the punter, standing 15 yds. back...
...United Steelworkers. All of the industry's Big Four-Kenhecott, Anaconda, American Smelting & Refining and Phelps Dodge-are affected. The unions demand hourly wage increases totaling 990 by their calculation and industry-wide bargaining; the companies have offered about 500 and have insisted on maintaining the same plant-by-plant bargaining system that copper men have always used. Last week, in a desperate effort to break the impasse that has nearly wiped out domestic copper supplies and rocketed the price of the metal bought abroad, Phelps Dodge raised its wage offer...
Bowing to union objections to its outside contracting practices, the company promised to hire in-plant workers whenever it can and if it has to farm work out, to be sure to use union shops. Another key issue was Reuther's demand that company-paid U.A.W. committeemen be allowed to work full time on union business-as they do at Ford and Chrysler-without having to put m any time at their regular jobs. To solve that, G.M. agreed to free some committie altogether while paring on-the-job time for others...
...worth as much as $20 million, and successfully negotiated a one-year extension of a $65 million bank loan, it lost $75.8 million in fiscal 1967. And development of the Amitron has a way to go. The car rolled out last week was a prototype with no power plant. First road tests of the power plant will come next year, when the system will be installed in an ordinary Rambler American. Nevertheless, Chapin figures that if all goes well, the electric car could be produced in five years...
Participating institutions include the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Biological Laboratories, the Harvard Forests, and the Institute of Plant Sciences. The directors of these four institutes will serve as members ex officio of the Center...