Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Effects Go On. For the nation's big steel users, the prospect is for still more layoffs in the next six weeks. More than 410,000 workers outside the steel industry have been furloughed because of the strike; the Department of Labor reports that the layoffs will continue at an accelerating rate as steel supplies are exhausted. Both the number and size of the shutdown plants are increasing...
...recommendations to both sides--as was unofficially done in the present strike. Besides the injunction, a final procedure for compulsory arbitration is also necessary. And an injunction which orders strikers back to work in case of emergency or irreparable damage should not be presumed an automatic remedy. The certain prospect of arbitration if all else failed, plus the uncertainty of when an injunction might be invoked would make union and management more prone to compromise than at present...
...health and safety," the U.S. had not proved that there was real damage. His delay tactics had won two extra weeks or more for the strike's effects to wear upon management, postponed the end of the So-day period until late January. This prevented the union-feared prospect of ordering members to resume the strike on the heels of the Christmas holidays, but it also guaranteed that a strike-weary Congress would be in session when the injunction expired, possibly tempted to solve the impasse with compulsory arbitration...
...arrogantly on the bleak slopes of Indian Kashmir, all India suddenly became aware that Red China was not simply guilty of "overenthusiastic pursuit of Tibetan refugees" (as one Indian official had first surmised), but was embarked on a systematic quarrel with India, and not particularly keen for negotiation. The prospect loomed that Red China wanted a test of strength with its No. 1 rival in Asia...
There are rumors that a major study is in prospect, one comparable in scope to the Redbook. If such a report is written, and approved by the Faculty, perhaps General Education will experience a rebirth of interest and participation. But the present temper of the Faculty is so disposed toward special study and specialization that it is doubtful that a new report which created a program as broad and diffuse as General Education would be approved...