Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reveler, Ford once led an orchestra through a swimming pool while the musicians played When the Saints Go Marching In. He divorced Anne, his wife of 24 years, in 1964 to marry Maria Cristina Vettore Austin, a divorced Italian jet-setter. That marriage broke up in 1980, and the settlement cost Henry an estimated $15 million. He married Kathleen DuRoss, at the time an operator of a Detroit disco, later that year...
...company's 104,000 union members would ordinarily have gone out on strike. But the clock was stopped, and the two sides, tantalizingly close to an agreement, went on talking. Finally, after a 28-hour marathon bargaining session that ended about 60 hours beyond the original strike deadline, settlement came on Thursday morning. U.A.W. President Owen Bieber was not around for the handshakes; the strain of the negotiations had sent him to a Detroit hospital on Tuesday night with stomach pains. But he kept in touch with the talks by phone, and his deputy, U.A.W. Vice President Stephen Yokich, proclaimed...
Service and maintenance workers at Cornell University continue to work without a wage settlement after the university rejected the union's first concession during negotiations on Thursday...
...Boston woman whohad said Loury had threatened her with murderdropped all criminal charges. The 38-year-oldKennedy School professor--who had been PresidentReagan's first choice for Undersecretary ofEducation--pleaded not guilty in June toallegations that he had attacked South Endresident Pamela Foster. Foster is currentlyseeking a cash settlement from thenationally-prominent Black conservative.Dean of the Law School JAMES VORENBERG...
...have reason to hope for better times. Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced earlier this month that he was seeking a "compact" of understanding with the powerless Aborigines. "Before 1987 is finished," said Hawke, "it would be good to have some clear acknowledgment that in the 200 years of European settlement, considerable injustice has been done to the Aboriginal people...