Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prompted this particular move toward a more centralized personnel structure, but he was told by the NLRB hearing officer that it had no specific relevance to the hearing. NLRB policy seems to be based on the premise that employers can, and often will, take all kinds of steps to prevent unionization, and if Harvard is offering as evidence of centralization a chart of a personnel structure that was significantly changed, just so that it might be used as evidence, so be it. Apparently District 65 will have to fight in court if it wants to make an issue...
...ovum. Neither treatment should be used unless doctors have first determined that a woman's inability to have a baby is caused by a failure to ovulate, which accounts for only 5% to 10% of all cases of infertility.* The experts urge that patients be monitored carefully to prevent the development of cysts...
...locked out of one of its most important eastern Mediterranean bases last week. In an anti-American decision with potentially grave strategic effect, Greece's democratic government, still angry that the U.S. had once backed the fallen junta and then did not do more last year to prevent the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, withdrew permission for the fleet to use the harbor of Elefsis, 17 miles west of Athens. Set up only three years ago on a lease basis, Elefsis was a home port abroad for the six ships and 1,700 crewmen of Destroyer Squadron 12, as well...
...Repeal of two federal statutes that have enabled 36 states to enact misnamed Fair Trade laws. These laws permit manufacturers to set minimum retail prices on nationally advertised merchandise; they prevent storekeepers from discounting prices on products ranging from bow ties to TV sets. Sweeping such laws away would save consumers $2.1 billion annually, estimates Republican Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, chief sponsor of the federal repeal bill...
...settlements seem to be moderating." The average 1975 raise, he predicts, will be under the 10% average provided for in the first year of contracts negotiated during 1974. That may be an understatement. Some groups of workers are even accepting pay cuts or other economic adjustments in order to prevent further layoffs and spread the available work...