Word: reopens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Leonid Brezhnev broached a topic that was of concern not only in Tashkent, 240 miles from the Chinese border, but also in Peking and Washington. In an obvious attempt to exploit the currently uncertain state of U.S.-China relations, Brezhnev announced that the Soviet Union was prepared to reopen talks with China to reduce the tensions that have existed between the Communist rivals for more than two decades...
...rent board, after originally deciding to apply the rent correction only to future charges, moved 10 days ago to reopen the case because of a precedent involving retroactive rent corrections. Board member Alfred Cohn said that in at least one case where tenants had been charged too little because of a miscalculation, they had been ordered to pay the full difference retroactively...
...attorney Daniel Polvere told the board in a memorandum that a decision in favor of a retroactive correction by Harvard would open "a Pandora's box out of which would fly many other petitions to reopen cases...
...memorandum to the rent board. Polvere stated that reconsideration of the earlier decision would open "a Pandora's box out of which would fly many other petitions to reopen cases...
...prospects for a settlement at General Motors are not good. Nearly half the GM work force of 330,000 is on indefinite layoff, and relations between the union and management are strained. GM wants to reopen talks, but there may not be much support for that from the rank-and-file union members. Union people complain that General Motors Chairman Roger Smith has a paternalistic attitude toward them. Industry analysts now consider a September strike at GM a real possibility. If GM begins boosting car production in May, despite the current sales slump, it will be a sign that...