Word: secret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the first 60 days of the cooling-off period, federal mediators attempt to get the two sides to agree to a pact. In the next 15 days, the National Labor Relations Board must hold a secret ballot of the strikers on management's final offer. If the offer is rejected, the Government must ask the court for a dissolution of the injunction, and the President must report to Congress on the dispute. After the injunction is lifted, the union is free to resume its strike...
...long as there have been an FBI and an International Longshoremen's Association. But the latest two-year probe into racketeering at East Coast and Gulf ports has a new wrinkle: some targets of the investigation have been keeping abreast of the agents' findings by reading their secret progress reports to the Justice Department...
...audit, purely at random, 42,000 returns, or about one in 2,000, in order to develop a statistical profile of all taxpayers. The incomes of these audited taxpayers will range from the lowest to the highest; anyone is vulnerable. These audits will give the IRS the top-secret norms for deductions against which all returns will be judged...
...such a plain mousy little thing, so set upon by her peers that one derived vengeful satisfaction when she-literally-brought the house of her tormentors down around them. By contrast, The Fury exists from the start in the fictional world of movies and paperbacks - a place where secret agents, car chases and shootouts are routine. In that context, psychokinesis requires no greater dislocation than James Bond's latest bit of fanciful hardware...
...role model for his profession was a Marine drill instructor: shouting, short hair and slavish obedience. But Wootten encouraged his players to call him by his first name. Although he insists on tidy hair and coats and neckties on game day, Wootten allows the team to vote, by secret ballot, on training rules. His simple, if heretical explanation: "The team sets the rules because it's their team...