Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Membership is declining primarily because unions have failed to adjust to an enormous postwar switch in job patterns. Their prime appeal has always been to male factory hands. But manufacturing has gone down in importance, while workers have flooded into wholesale and retail trade, service industries and white-collar occupations like computer programming?all predominantly nonunion...
...southern rim, would feed Pan Am's foreign hops from New York, San Francisco and Miami. In turn, National could draw on Pan Am's big fleet of 747s for its growing transatlantic business, which now includes service between Miami, Tampa, New Orleans and four European cities. Indeed, a prime reason why Pan Am is interested in National is that it wanted to react to the competition posed by the U.S. newcomers to the transatlantic trade, including Braniff and Delta as well as National...
...bring young, career couples back into the city. In the pull-down-and-build-over-again spirit that has led to much urban blight, the city's first impulse was to demolish the old marketplace: the low, 535-ft.-long buildings, occupying 400,000 sq. ft. of prime real estate, seemed to have no place in a revitalized neighborhood...
...past elections, caught in near deadlocks, "arrangements" sometimes had to be made?for instance a "ticket" pairing a papal candidate with a Secretary of State, the virtual Prime Minister of the Vatican. According to an informed reconstruction of the 1958 conclave, just such a gentlemen's agreement was worked out. Key Cardinals approached Angelo Roncalli, the man who became Pope John XXIII, and implied that they would vote for him in return for indirect assurances that Domenico Tardini, an experienced administrator and a Curial traditionalist, would be appointed Secretary of State. Replied Roncalli: "Eminences, one could not fail to take...
...official in the Vatican Secretariat of State. "Benelli spoke of Luciani to many of the other Cardinals," said an Italian prelate. At 57, Benelli proved too young to become Pope. Still, he seemed to be the leading Pope-maker of the 1978 conclave, and figures to be a prime contender at the next...