Word: rifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter got some other good news on the labor front last week. Seeking to narrow the wide rift that has developed between the Administration and labor, the President met at the White House with a delegation of top union leaders headed by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who has been brutally critical of the wage-price program. After the session, Meany indicated that he would soften his objections over policy, making it easier for the Administration to deal with unions...
...more different from his flamboyant, autocratic predecessor. A teetotaling, shy and straitlaced man whose most salient characteristic is an occasional flash of quick temper, he has been described as having "about as much charisma as a dry maize cob." The son of poor farmers hi the Great Rift Valley, arap Moi had by 1946 become headmaster of a government school in Kabarnet. He was one of the first Africans in Kenya to enter politics, and one of the first to be appointed to the preindependence, British-dominated national Legislative Council...
...while the convention delegates had labored long over the development of a workable student government, and had tried hard to garner approval from undergraduates, no one had spend much time pondering how the new Student Assembly would mesh with the existing network of student-Faculty committees. Consequently, a rift emerged among the convention delegates...
...mandatory stops at various local stores. Jimmy also had to pay a visit to Cousin Hugh Carter, whose tattletale book about the family has dismayed several of its members. He and Rosalynn both accepted embraces from their cousin to avoid any fresh newspaper speculation about a family rift...
...thus was a logical first stop on Hua's itinerary. With Albania lately at ideological odds with China, Rumania is now Hua's best ally in Eastern Europe. Relations between the two countries have been cordial since the early 1960s, when Rumania realized that the Sino-Soviet rift offered an opportunity to assert its own autonomy...