Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city's Democratic mayors usually have worked out a cozy deal in advance, compromising between what Quill felt he needed and what the city felt it could afford. Nonetheless, Quill was always allowed to run through his biennial charade, dramatically announcing at the last moment a settlement that had actually been agreed on days earlier. Naturally, no one took too seriously Quill's blustering about a transit strike: people had heard that threat too often...
...collective bargaining process. Until this year this method of negotiation between the Transit Authority and the TWU had never really been used. In the past, New York's Democratic mayors had made behind-the-scenes deals with Michael J. Quill, president and founder of the TWU. Though settlement was reached before the deadline, Quill was permitted to continue with his strike threats up to the last minute so that the city could justify wage increases under the pretense of saving the city from a walkout...
Traditional diplomacy in the post-nuclear age had degenerated into the "diplomacy of negotiations," which merely arranged a settlement once the issue had been decided. Before the last war, European statesmen used diplomacy as a tactical weapon for forming or destroying alliances in the backrooms of national capitals. But in the present-day world, where two super-powers can obliterate each other without external help, alliances become less crucial and such diplomacy has largely disappeared...
...Hungary, and even Soviet-oriented Egypt. With the increased escalation of the war, the Vietnamese Communists find themselves increasingly dependent on the Russians for advanced military and economic aid. The Russians thus can increase their influence in Hanoi either by sending more rockets or by bringing about a negotiated settlement. Johnson's diplomatic initiative is aimed at strengthening the latter possibility...
...well shorten the war or limit its intensity. The Russians will probably first solidify their position in the North. The Hanoi-Moscow line might then soften, and a consequent softening by Washington and Saigon may follow. When and if that happens, historians will be left to debate whether the settlement that develops could not have been reached last September...