Word: prods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which has just emerged from crucial elections in which the Communists scored gains but failed to replace the Christian Democrats as the dominant party. The Western leaders obviously are eager to help Italy overcome its economic dilemma (unemployment is 7%, growth is a mere 1.5%). Yet, they want to prod the Italians into meaningful reforms and large budget cuts...
...brilliant." Hopefully she will weather the hyperbolic fuss over film critics (these are only movie reviews, after all) and get over her recent phase of open-mouthed raptures. Reeling brings together another thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating round of reviews, and hopefully Kael will sustain enough independence and determination to prod our thinking for a few more volumes worth of reviews...
...International Brotherhood of Teamsters is not rare; indeed, it is to be expected in the nation's largest union, which has 2.3 million members ranging from over-the-road truck drivers to nurses and policemen. But a report last week by the Washington-based Professional Drivers Council (PROD), a small but increasingly vocal organization of reformist Teamsters, amounts to one of the strongest indictments yet of corrupt, self-serving and autocratic Teamster leadership...
Though it comes not quite a year after the mysterious disappearance last July of former Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, the 177-page PROD report does not dwell on the union's violent history and associations with organized crime. Instead, drawing chiefly on Teamster financial records filed, as required by law, with the Department of Labor, it focuses on the style of life enjoyed by Teamster officials-and finds it far removed from that of the rank and file, who pay $ 120-5300 a year in dues to support it. The picture that emerges is of a clubby, entrenched leadership...
...PROD study, the top Teamsters appear as a cabal of executives with six-figure salaries and perks to match, including free vacations, French chefs at international headquarters in Washington, and the use of the seven jets and turboprops in the Teamster "air force," which is one of the largest private fleets in the country. Some specifics...