Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still there was plenty of posturing over the conference's central issue: the nature and extent of guarantees to be offered to the country's whites, who are fleeing at the rate of 1,000 a month. The Patriotic Front put forth a proposed constitution that would not reserve any seats for whites in the 100-member Parliament (they now control 28). Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, presented an alternative that would guarantee the whites one-third membership in a toothless Senate and an unspecified number of seats in the lower house-but not enough...
...almost anything went -remnants of international mannerism. Venetian color, quotations from Roman or Flemish Baroque, borrowings from the new realism of Caravaggio and his great Spanish follower, Ribera. The city was visited by geniuses, like the young Rubens; but its art colony consisted mainly of third-rate painters turning out ragged marsh peasants, holy Virgins with the rolling eyeballs of mad colts, and wardrobe-like, impermeable nudes...
...kept on the job. The company agreed to increase paid days off (not counting vacation) from 12 to 26 during the life of the contract. Pending ratification, neither side would discuss the noneconomic improvements or the size of the increases in the cost-of-living clause and pay rates. One unofficial estimate put the wage increase at between 9% and 12%. At present the combined basic wage rate for all classes of GM workers is $9 an hour; by the end of the contract period that could well have risen...
...indefinable attributes of the astronauts. His long awaited book about test pilots and the Mercury flights recalls those years through the eyes and nerve endings of the first astronauts, their wives and even the conditioned chimpanzees who rode prototype capsules downrange from Cape Canaveral: The chimp's &"heart rate shot up as he strained against the force, but he didn't panic for a moment. He had been through this same sensation many times on the centrifuge. As long as he just took it and didn't struggle, they wouldn't zap all those goddamned blue...
...women booters, on the other hand, now sit on top of the hill and will spend the year defending their Ivy crown. Thirteen and one last year, the team has lost few to graduation, and rate as favorites for a repeat. First challenger: (non-Ivy) Bowdoin, in a 2 p.m. Soldiers Field encounter...