Word: representive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In 1982, medical area clerical and technical employees voted against unionization. UAW organizers appealed to the NLRB for another election, but the NLRB rejected the request, arguing that the medical workers do not represent an independent unit.
Patterson's switch from legislator to lobbyist is an increasingly attractive choice for Congressmen who have lost or given up their seats. Reluctant to sever family and social ties in Washington, lured by bigger money than they could earn back home, they cash in on their Government experience and contacts...
Nowadays tapestry weavers try to make modern corporate headquarters look properly palatial. And where the Renaissance craftsmen typically copied famous works by painters like Raphael, most contemporary weavers follow the lead of those 20th century painters and sculptors who have worked in an abstract mode. Their credo is "honest" use...
If these scenarios somehow represent reasonable boundary cases, the future might well lie somewhere between. An outward looking, competitive America obviously will be in a much better position to lead an alliance; likewise it will be in a better position to respond to unexpected external shocks.
The disturbances came just four days after the island had received a long- awaited independence proposal from the French government. In a television address, French Special Envoy Edgard Pisani outlined a plan under which New Caledonia would become a sovereign nation, yet remain bound to France by a special "treaty...