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...after hanging tenaciously to its tenuous one-goal lead for nearly 24 minutes, the Big Green produced the Big Screw-Up. Coach George Crowe chose the worst possible time to change both his line, and defensemen on the fly and gave UNH a three-on-nothing breakaway. Gaudet made a chest-save on Ralph Cox, but Bob Francis (son of Emile) flipped the rebound past his left shoulder to knot the contest at one apiece...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Late Gould Slapshot Breaks 2-2 Tie, Gives Wildcats ECAC Championship | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...director will never change a call," Vastola says. "If you argue coolly, and sparingly, he may say to himself, 'maybe I did make a mistake.' Psychologically, he may give you a touch. If you bark at him too loudly and too often, that'll only harden his resolve to screw...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Fencing Captain Gene Vastola: Cool, Calm and Crafty | 3/7/1979 | See Source »

...introduce such a program unless there is a relationship of mutual respect between the union and the management. Once you have achieved that--which means a relationship in which the parties are relating to each other in the resolution of problems instead of finding out how they can screw each other, so to speak--then you can began to introduce a QWL program. In its essence, this means that workers are, in fact, participating in the decision-making process. There are very many ways in which to do this, and it must emanate from the bottom...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg and William A. Schwartz, S | Title: UAW: Loosening the Chains | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

...slip into your Jofa helmet and sharpen your Koho stick. Face-off time is nigh approaching. At the Forum, Roget Doucet is singing "Oh, Canada," and we can hear him. Screw the blue books, it's blue line time. The referee is an Islander fan, but any hockey esoterica is fair game...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Watch Out: One More (Stanley Cup) Final to Go | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

...Neither TDU nor PROD is going to get the support of the Al Barketts of the world, unless they become so bourgeois that they decimate their purpose," Brill says. "Same with the tax revolt business, the middle class is saying we want more for us, screw the poor. That same attitude is why you won't have reform in the Teamsters." Brill points out that the course was set long ago, when Jimmy Hoffa cooperated with organized crime to achieve power in the union, when he acquiesced and participated in the corruption, extortion, and violence that cemented his power...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: And the American Dream Did the Rest | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

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