Word: referring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vagueness v. Vulnerability. The second case was brought by Marcos Gonzales, a machinist living in San Francisco. In 1950 Gonzales got into a quarrel with International Association of Machinists officials and was expelled. In plain violation of NLRB rules the I.A.M. hiring hall refused to refer him to another job. The California courts gave Gonzales $7,500 in back pay, $2,500 in punitive damages, and the Supreme Court upheld the awards...
...already on the shelf and see why they are not selling. "You can only conclude that it is because the merchandise we manufacturers have offered has not been attractive enough. Our past market experience has told us that we had overdesigned some of the features we were offering -I refer particularly to the complexity of some of today's modern home appliances -and our review has brought us back a little to products that are simpler to operate, a little more direct in their appeal to the customer...
Irreverent Israelis call the new center "the Vatican"; the more cynical refer to it as "party headquarters" for Mizrahi, the National Religious Party in Premier David Ben-Gurion's government. The Chief Rabbinate that the center will house -Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Itzhak Nissim, plus their staffs of scholars and law courts-has jurisdiction over marriage, divorce and many disputes affecting the personal status of Israelis. The rabbinate-which is already staffing its research departments with Talmudic scholars for the job-is breaking new ground in setting itself up as chief authority among...
Traditions have a way of springing up suddenly, asserting their antiquity, and going unquestioned. Some of the earliest accounts of confetti battles refer to them as "traditional." Somebody had to throw the first handful of confetti, but who ever it was remains unknown. There are theories, of course, which account for the origin of the confetti battle. Some claim it originated when Tree Day rites were in fact Tree Day riots; others maintain that; pre-game rallies generated confetti throwing...
...hates: Arthur Godfrey ("O'Brian will drag Godfrey's name into print for no other reason than to express contempt"), Allen's own rival Sunday-night Host Ed Sullivan ("His hatred of Sullivan is so pronounced that he cannot even bring himself to refer to his hour as a 'program' "), Comedian Jackie Gleason ("Initially, O'Brian praised Gleason. Eventually, he attacked him, at last so rudely that the two almost came to blows one night in a restaurant...