Word: rear-guard
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...fear that they would be unable to compete against banks and the new so-called financial supermarkets such as Merrill Lynch and Sears, Roebuck & Co., which offer every service from money-market accounts to insurance. Savings and loan lobbyists in Washington, for example, have been waging a rear-guard action to stop the deregulation of interest rates. In October they blocked a plan to lift the level that they pay on passbook accounts from 5.5% to 6%. The thrifts argued that such a move would cost them $500 million annually and make their plight even worse...
...bargained. At that time the auto workers won an agreement that has pushed their pay up 15% in each of the last two years and the rubber workers got a contract that will be worth about 50% over three years. The trend-setters this time will be fighting a rear-guard action to avoid giving up gains made in past negotiations rather than bargaining for important new pay hikes...
...most states inclined to buck the antiregulation trend. In Texas, for example, consumerists could hardly get committee hearings this year for their bills, and fought a rear-guard action to prevent weakening of existing laws. The budget signed into law this summer by Massachusetts Governor Edward King eliminates that state's consumer council...
...sophomore line of Bob McDonald, Tom Murray and converted rear-guard Graham Carter sparked the icemen with buzzsaw forechecking and picturesque plays. Murray notched a hat trick with a goal in each stanza...
...strict that at Groton, seventh-graders were given black marks for going out in the rain without rubber overshoes, and eleventh-graders had to ask permission to go to the bathroom during study hours. Then came the virulent student discontent of the late '60s. After some bitter rear-guard struggles, the schools emerged with female students (of the top schools, only Deerfield and Lawrenceville remain all male) and far more freedom: relaxed dress codes; fewer required chapels, meals and study halls; more weekends away. "We treat them like human beings now," says Exeter Principal Stephen Kurtz, "not just...