Word: return
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terms of return on invested capital, the oil firms have been slightly below the par for U.S. industry. In 1978, according to a Chase Manhattan Bank study of 27 oil companies, they had an average return of 13.2%, compared with nearly 15% for all firms...
...strikes against 73 of the 500 companies involved in the negotiations. This was a union effort to flex some muscle but avoid provoking the White House into imposing the 80-day cooling-off period under the Taft-Hartley Act. To invoke the law, which would require the drivers to return to work, the President must show that a strike will endanger the nation's health or safety. The partial walkout also would have enabled the union to push for divide-and-conquer settlements with individual firms. To foil that move, trucking industry leaders called for and got a largely...
...being treated like mushrooms-kept in the dark and spread with manure," he fumed. Two days later, the university's regents revealed that Colorado had acquired Fairbanks because of an extraordinary out-of-court settlement: the indefatigable Flatirons had agreed to pay $200,000 to the Patriots in return for dropping the suit...
With the breeze blowing in their faces. Carrie Graves's oarswomen waited uneasily, trying to harness the adrenalin that was inspiring visions of Radcliffe revenge. All the elements were right for a return of the women in black--and April 14 was not a day that brought disappointment...
...Upon his return to Chicago he began practicing on what had been Camp Douglas during the Civil War. using the leftover ration cans as cups. In 1895 he designed the Chicago Golf Club. Yale is one of MacDonald's masterpieces, one of the premier university courses, and is ranked in Golf Digest magazine's Top One Hundred Courses...