Word: resister
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...entry into the European Community in 1973 is helping to change that. Some 60% of British manual workers now receive between four and five vacation weeks annually. Explains Benjamin Roberts, professor of industrial relations at the London School of Economics: "Employers in the U.K. have found it difficult to resist demands for longer holidays because they have seen them in effect in Europe. American employers tend to look at the cost-effectiveness of vacations and therefore take a stronger line...
...body. It yielded to Congress (on all-male draft registration and tough strip-mine controls), to the Executive Branch (on passport powers and strict standards for cotton dust and lead in factories) and to states (on televising trials and the double celling of prisoners). Moreover, the Justices tended to resist the temptation to write broad new rules. In short, the court has been just the sort of strict-constructionist, nonactivist body that Ronald Reagan likes...
...warn you that if you do not resist, dictatorship will prevail and reduce you to misery...
Khomeini suggested that Banisadr could retain the presidency if he apologized for urging the Islamic country to "resist the dictatorship" of Islamic hardliners. "I am sorry that [he and his supporters] have dug their own graves," Khomeini told clergymen massed near his home in north Tehran. "I did not want it to happen this way. I want them now to say that they have been wrong so far in inviting people to revolt." Banisadr's reply, though respectful, fell short of contrition. "However angry you are, my honesty toward you will not be diminished. I think your treatment...
...controllers. Long a militant lot, the controllers were demanding, according to the Government, median pay raises of $10,000, plus cost of living adjustments that would bring their top annual base salary to $73,420. The union threatened a coast-to-coast shutdown if the Reagan Administration continued to resist. A full walkout would ground about three-fourths of U.S. commercial flights. But a partial strike would probably be manageable, at least for a while...