Word: rationalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dissension spread last week, a hasty compromise was hammered out between the government and Solidarity, the trade union. But the agreement, which promised to rescind the ration cut after one month and make up the shortfall in the future, sidestepped the fact that restrictions are unavoidable in Poland...
...Wobblies). Solidarity is what Big Bill Haywood meant when he talked about "one big industrial union," able to bring a repressive, exploitative government of the bosses to its feet by the threat of a massive work stoppage. The Poles want a free press, mass on television, a full ration of meat, new faces in the cabinet, and the government knows it has no choice but to give in, or face absolute, unrepressible chaos. And by the same token, the workers are disciplined enough to know they cannot ask for the sky, because, quite simply, it cannot be produced...
...difficult to measure the amount of time that students lose because their professors are in Washington. In the economics department, the faculty-student ration can be a cause for concern, Griliches argues, explaining that some students in the department complain that they have problems reaching faculty members. But students can also take advantage of their professors' activities. Jonathan A. Berman '81 says that he has worked closely with his Kennedy School thesis advisor at the firm where the professor has been consulting and that he will be working there next year...
...lost it. When a man soldiers on the winning side, the social contract of arms holds up; the young conscript is asked to endure all discomforts of the field, including death, but if he returns, the grateful nation (though it may soon grow indifferent) promises at least a banal ration of glory, a ceremonious welcome, the admiring opinion of his fellow citizens. Sometime between Tet and the last helicopter off the embassy roof in 1975, America threw away its social contract with the soldiers and left them to straggle back into the society as best they could...
...From scraps of film left by the track photographer, the shutterbug-jockey suspects that the dead man had been blackmailing some of the racing world's leading figures. Between falls on the track and a savage attack by two hit men, Nore suffers even more than the normal ration of violence doled out to Dick Francis' heroes...