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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar bravado had a hollow ring, for organized labor is in trouble. Its leadership is out of step with a nation that is increasingly worried about inflation and annoyed over Government controls. Beyond that, labor confronts a U. S. President who is not all that friendly and a rank and file that is disputatious and declining...
...while a Kellereiinspektor (inspector of state wine cellars) will henceforth be known only as an Amtsrat, or office counselor. In a curious bow to tradition, Austria's 100 Wirkliche Hofräte (real court counselors), who are assistant secretaries in ministries, will be demoted only to the rank of Hofrat (court counselor) -even though no imperial court has existed in Austria for 60 years...
...wildcats result, and assertions like that of Mike Adkins, 33, are heard: "Up here, on the creek, nobody tells me when to work and when not to work." But when the leaders demand something that the miners want, like a local's right to strike over grievances, the rank and file responds. "By God, it will be done!" bellowed Adkins before he and fellow miners walked out of the pits last week. "I believe in this union, and I'll give up Christmas and a lot more for it." Adds Rick Christian, 21, father of three...
...from $5.4 billion to $7.2 billion, but profits fell from $56 million to less than $14 million. They are likely to shrink this year to near invisibility. Even in 1976 A. & P. earned a mere tenth of a cent on each dollar in sales. The company yielded top sales rank in the supermarket business to Safeway (1976 volume: $10.4 billion) in 1973. Now it is close to being overtaken as well by Kroger (1976 sales: $6 billion). A. & P. shareholders are understandably disgruntled because they have received dividends in only two of the past five years (450 a share...
McLaughlin returned to Rose Hill in the fall of 1970 to become an assistant coach under Richard "Digger" Phelps. The Digger's father worked as an undertaker. McLaughlin's father was a New York City policeman, who worked his way up to the rank of detective in the Bronx district attorney's office...