Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the participants peered down the long, tough road in labor-contract negotiations. Willie Usery, Secretary of Labor, who had just mediated the Teamster settlement, puffed on his big white meerschaum pipe and ticked some of them off: rubber workers, electrical-appliance workers, meat packers, construction workers. It would be a delicate and difficult time in some ways, he warned, but not impossible to weather safely if free bargaining were given every encouragement...
...Rice, a comely home-town girl from a prominent Houston family. They were divorced four years later. In 1957, he married Actress Jean Peters, who also had homespun qualities. She gave up her film career and joined Hughes in seclusion until they parted after 15 years; she got a settlement of $50,000 annually for life...
...midweek, he announced a settlement in the long-standing contract deadlock between the University and its nearly 600 custodians and watchmen. And at week's end, Powers' office was busy preparing a report which may finally clarify the obscure policy of granting promotions in the University kitchens--a policy that may be in violation of Affirmative Action guidelines...
...president of the Harvard University Employees' Representative Association (HUERA) yesterday released provisions of the proposed contract settlement that may end a five-month deadlock between HUERA and the University...
...essay "Errand into the Wilderness," Miller emphasized the discontinuity between the limited optimism of the first generation Puritans, who hoped their New World settlement would serve as a model for a corrupt Europe, and the insecurity of later generations, who saw their role preempted and then rendered irrelevant by events in England...