Word: ralph
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...depression in autos has been a severe blow to the rubber industry, and weakened the bargaining position of the United Rubber Workers union. Over the past two years, 18 tire plants have been closed and 25,000 jobs eliminated. Says Ralph Eifert, Firestone's vice president of employee relations: "We're in difficult times. We know it, and the unions know it too." The four major tire manufacturers (Goodyear, Firestone, B.F. Goodrich and Uniroyal) want to reduce paid holidays and other fringe benefits and cut back on cost of living adjustments...
Just before Donovan was confirmed in February, the FBI told the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee that Mobster Ralph Picardo had claimed to have received regular payoffs from Donovan in the 1960s for labor peace. Picardo had testified for the Government to help convict several Teamsters Union officials of racketeering. According to the FBI Picardo contended that Briguglio, a victim of a mob execution in 1978, had shared these payoffs. When asked about this at his Senate hearings, Donovan denied giving any bribes, called Picardo "murdering slime" and testified three times that he had never even met Briguglio. Because...
...University in 1968, the student newspaper balked at printing the list of new members. Today everybody is eager to join, partly because undergraduates again think the distinctive gold ΦBK key may help unlock the door to worldly success. Harvard's chapter, which boasts such notable alumni as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Adams, is flourishing. And when, as part of the bicentennial festivities, it recently sponsored a panel discussion on "Literacy and the Search for a Livable Future" at Harvard's cavernous Sanders Theater, there was no shortage of academic talent on hand. Significantly...
...citizen rebellion is building: Ralph Morrell, 62, heads a small watchdog group called Operation Slush Fund and has spent the last year exposing the legislators' "unconscionable extravagance." Lee Phelps, 51, is president of a statewide coalition called Citizens Asserting Supremacy over Taxation (CAST). Says he: "There are no controls, except by the legislators themselves. We've got to change the rules in this game where the legislators play around with our money. We've got to become the umpire." To that end, CAST has collected most of the 554,000 signatures necessary to put a measure...
Actor Paul Newman, a founder of Energy Action, a consumer group, said in Washington last week that the whole operation makes "the railroad robber barons look like cheap stuff." Ralph Nader claimed that consumers were being forced to pay for the pipeline without having a say in management...