Word: recoup
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...insists that the new contract, whenever it is signed, expire on Oct. 31, 1964. The date is meaningful. It would move the printers' contract back to coincide with that of the Newspaper Guild, whose role as standard-bearer for the printing craft unions Bert Powers intends to recoup for the I.T.U. It also falls just before the national elections, an event of such news significance that any strike called on Oct. 31 would turn the city's newspaper publishers into frantic...
...chief of the French General Staff for his foot dragging over De Gaulle's Algerian policy. It will not be smooth going at Sud Aviation either for Puget, a quiet, amiable St.-Cyr graduate. Though Sud Aviation made $8,300,000 last year, it has yet to recoup the original development costs of the Caravelle, and faces even greater outlays on the Mach 2 Super Caravelle, which it plans to turn out in cooperation with the British Aircraft Corp...
...between $12 million and $15 million, by Agriculture's own estimates. Anxious to ease the Estes burden he has carried for weeks. Freeman pointed out that the scandal had taken place under the Eisenhower Administration, that his regime had stopped it, and that he was taking steps to recoup Government losses incurred by the illegal transactions...
...RELIGION. "Protestants are just sort of Christianized Jews, aren't they? Whereas Catholics keep up a permanent dialogue with a whole group of phantoms. Catholics are continually gaining and losing heaven, but they always have a chance to recoup themselves...
...Hater. Kennedy had been unable to recoup the Cuba disaster, and the defeat still rankles deeply. But he was certainly able to fight back against Big Steel -and he meant to do just that. To Kennedy, U.S. Steel's price-hike decision was a personal affront. Through Secretary Goldberg, he had all but presided over U.S. Steel's labor contract negotiations. He had personally urged both labor and management to exercise "restraint." His Administration had persuaded United Steelworkers' President David McDonald to agree to a "noninflationary" contract: it included no wage raise, called for an increase...