Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Costly Accident. Efforts to control the runaway well began within minutes. The Seaway Falcon, a specially designed fire-fighting ship already on station in the Ekofisk complex, rushed to the well and began spraying it with 8,000 tons of sea water an hour to prevent it from catching fire. Other ships, dispatched by a crisis control center in Stavanger, Norway, stood by to help, while aircraft were warned to stay clear of the area. A small fleet of recovery ships deployed booms to contain the oil so it could be collected, but their work was hampered by heavy seas...
...brick buildings which housed those old Lowell and Lawrence factories still stand. Some are now museums; the factories are no longer operating. J.P. Stevens has closed down 21 such plants in the Northeast within the past 25 years. Stevens' plants, and those of other textile firms, are known as "runaway shops." They went south, in search of cheap, exploitable, non-unionized workers. They found them, and have taken extraordinary measures to keep them that...
...only way workers will ever achieve better wages, improve safety measures, and health conditions, and secure decent pension plans. For the AFL-CIO, the campaign is the first step toward unionizing the South and improving the conditions for Southern workers. That, in turn, could curb the pattern of Northern "runaway shops" moving south to avoid union labor, and help the economic development of the North-east...
...nation was having collective nightmares in the late '60s, and Didion connected by writing honestly and well about Viet Nam, runaway children and marital stress. In 1970 she and her husband, Writer John Gregory Dunne, paid $140,000 for a house at Malibu, Calif, where the sun always shines and the cost of real estate is limited only by what the next multimillionaire rock star is willing to pay. There Didion can have her bad dreams in style and gather strength for the promotional tour that is likely to make A Book of Common Prayer a bestseller this spring...
Social Contract. But nowhere is the mood so bitter, or the consequences of labor's unrest so ominous, as in Britain. Two years ago, the ruling Labor Party persuaded British trades unions and industry to join a massive campaign to combat runaway inflation (then 26%) and restore the confidence of Britain's foreign creditors. The result was a drastic tightening of the so-called social contract, which held wage increases for all British workers to a flat $10 per week in the first year's Phase 1 and to $7 in Phase 2. The voluntary wage controls...