Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abernathy and his lieutenants in the S.C.L.C. were not notably successful at maintaining order down there either, and the result was a week marked by chaotic confrontations and often puerile demonstrations. One group of 150 poor people marched into the cafeteria of the Agriculture Department, piled their trays high with food, then refused to pay the $292.66 tab. "We're going to balance it off against what the Agriculture Department owes us for all the lunch programs that we didn't get," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Next day Abernathy hurried over to the department...
France, which had fallen apart with such appalling rapidity, now seemed to coalesce with the same amazing speed. Partly, it was the result of timing. By good luck or design, De Gaulle had chosen the proper moment to move: the striking workers were running out of money (the French unions have no strike funds), and the nation as a whole was tired of the inconveniences of living in an immobilized country. Partly, too, it was the response of a nation to a heroic leader. The turnabout illumined the dilemma of the majority in an age of instant communication, when extremists...
...collar employees, such as bank clerks and office personnel. In theory, the commissions are illegal, but in fact they are tacitly tolerated by the government, though one of their organizers, ex-Socialist Marcelino Camacho, is now on trial in Madrid on charges of leading an illegal demonstration. As a result, Camacho has become something of a modern Spanish hero...
...payroll checkoff for union dues. How did Reynolds break the ice? By using the Federal Credit Union, which is employee-owned but federally administered. As he reasoned, the City of Memphis had no right to prevent its employees from designating some portion of their wages for the credit union. Result: the wages were duly deducted for the credit union-then transferred for payment as union dues, saving face all around. Such conciliation would be far easier if adversaries would only heed the aphoristic advice of Danish Scientist-Poet Piet Hein...
...immediate response of the Law School Administration to student demands for black workers on the new Law School office building is commendable. Within a week about a dozen black workers will be on the construction site, the result of pressure put on the Vappi Construction Co. by the Administration...