Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curiously darkened, the country last week shifted to a three-day work week in yet another effort to conserve coal supplies and electrical power. The austerity measure, decreed by Prime Minister Edward Heath last month after Britain's coal miners refused to work overtime pending a new wage settlement, means pay cuts of up to 40% for 15 million British workers, massive unemployment, and sharp curtailments in industrial production...
...tempt workers in other industries to demand similar boosts. The miners responded by pointing out that the fact they must work overtime to keep the nation afloat indicates the inability of the National Coal Board to maintain an adequate working force because of present low wages. Asked if a settlement by the government was not preferable to massive industrial dislocations, Employment Secretary William Whitelaw declared last week: "If one talks about standing on Phase III, it rather looks as if one is standing on the bridge of a ship at all costs for no particular reason...
...earlier five points, including U.N. truce observers and an exchange of prisoners of war, Cairo gave more than it got. Thus the Egyptians maintain in public that the sixth point, disengagement, should be carried out unilaterally by the Israelis. Privately, both sides broadly hint that they expect a settlement on the issue this month...
David Halberstam comes to Cambridge to push his latest best-seller, a history of the influence squatters exerted on the settlement of California by refusing to spend money, entitled The West and the Tightest...
...Geneva Conference has proved to be a boon to Israel's war-battered Labor Party coalition, diverting the voters' attention from the trauma of the October fighting to the hope of a genuine peace settlement between Israelis and Arabs. Golda Meir's ruling party has been locked in the fight of its life against the new opposition coalition called Likud (Union) which, like the Gahal coalition before it, is headed by Extreme Nationalist Menachem Begin...