Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike moved into its sixth week, the Johnson Administration and a handful of Congressmen stepped up their behind-the-scenes pressure to get negotiators to agree on a contract. House members fervently hoped that a settlement would be reached before they had to vote on the back-to-work bill, which the House was due to take up this week in what promised to be a stormy debate. If the bill becomes law, will the machinists abide by it? Yes, replied Siemiller, but "they'll just be a little slow at getting back...
...system, leaving a defect that impairs many automatic functions and sensory perception. While the victim's fertility was unimpaired, reasons McKusick, half of his many descendants carried the defective gene with them during a 13th century Jewish migration to Eastern Europe, the area that became the Pale of Settlement by a series of Czarist ukases beginning...
...abortive effort to settle the airline strike, the President had persuaded carriers to accept a package settlement amounting to a 4.3% increase in machinists' wages and other benefits. It actually made little difference that the machinists, defying their own union leadership, later voted down even that hefty hike. The fact was that Johnson himself had ignored the guideposts-withal his rationale about airline "productivity"-and now the doors were wide open to above-the-line moves by both labor and management in all industries. That point was soon proved when the steel industry last week imposed major price increases...
...more days while other steps were tried. With the union members thus ordered to stay at work for 180 days in all, the President, if no progress had been made after 150 days, would be requested to send Congress his own recommendations for a settlement...
...group considered Taiwan the major block in relations between the two countries. The settlement of this issue is even more important than Vietnam, Cohen said. China does not maintain any diplomatic relations with any country recognizing Taiwan...