Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...test of the ban on wage raises negotiated prior to the presidential freeze?the provision that unions dislike most?might well take longer than 90 days. A more embarrassing reason for the retreat was the absence, so far, of any significant clamor against the freeze on the part of rank-and-file union members...
...general public has a different view of union members than the members have of themselves. Asked if Meany and Woodcock spoke for the rank and file of labor in opposing the freeze, 48% of the nonunion respondents thought that they did. Only 42% of the union members considered them to be accurate spokesmen for labor's viewpoint. Union and nonunion people split once again on the question of whether or not union members agreed with the President. While 36% of the nonunion households queried thought that the labor union members whom they knew backed the President...
...loud demurrer came from A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany. Shultz and Labor Secretary James Hodgson explained the Nixon program to the 35-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council, but they might as well have saved their breath. Meany called the wage freeze "patently discriminatory" against labor. Hodgson insisted that the rank-and-file union man would back the Nixon plan and accused Meany of being "out of step" with the average working man. That struck a raw nerve, for the aged Meany, 77, feels his leadership threatened by younger union Turks. He sneered: "I don't pay too much attention...
There is, first of all, a strong reluctance among Democrats to award the highest prize to a newcomer whose transparently timed conversion leaves him open to a charge of opportunism. Only if Lindsay were to win impressively in the primaries and rank high in public opinion polls would the convention find him irresistible. And at the moment, the steeplechase of 23 state primaries beginning next March 7 in New Hampshire does not look inviting to Lindsay. Against a moderate like Muskie from neighboring Maine, New Hampshire would be unlikely to welcome Lindsay. In Florida, where the second primary will...
Since 1951, to be sure, the U.S. has given far more aid to India than has anyone else-nearly $10 billion. But much of it was in the undramatic form of food shipments; the Soviets, who rank fifth among India's patrons over nearly two decades, got far more mileage with high-visibility projects such as steel mills. At the same time, the U.S. has given an estimated $1 billion in military assistance to Pakistan, a member of the SEATO and CENTO alliances. John Kennedy, it is true, rushed $80 million in war supplies to New Delhi when...