Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cent of the vote. Judging from the number of cards that were turned in--"well over 50 per cent," according to the union's Medical Area organizer, Leslie Sullivan--one would think that there would be no contest. But surveys done by the NLRB indicate that the number of signed cards often has no correlation to the election results. As an NLRB official said last week, "People will sign anything, but voting to join a union is a much more serious commitment." Perhaps the best way to gauge the probable result is to try and determine the degree of rank...
...refugees leave urgent personal messages about themselves in graffiti all around the camp-on the fences leading into the huts and immigration tents, on the sides of the shower stalls, even in spray paint across their tent flaps. Said one sign: "Tran Thi Hong da di California" (Tran Thi Hong gone to California...
...three decades separating the Allied victory in Europe from the American debacle in South Viet Nam were already being viewed by some as a self-contained chapter of history, the rise and fall of the Western world's reliance upon the Pax Americana. One sign of the times was French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's announcement that France's 30th celebration of V-E day would be its last. Rather than sustain the memories of past animosities-and past alliances -Europeans should "open the way to the future and turn our thoughts to that which...
...small sign at the entrance to the hall emphasizes that everything there is student work, and must be judged as such Learning and discovering and experimenting are supposed to be exciting processes, but to have them succeed as such requires a boldness and bravery on the part of the student in other words, it's scary to stick your neck out and sometimes you do and you flop miserably. Sometimes the artists in this show flop miserably--but usually because they've fallen prey to the modern student syndrome of not experimenting, or staying in a rut. Those who move...
...woman, caught between a bus and the building when a shell burst, was carried inside unconscious, but only from fright. A European walked down the line asking everybody to sign a 500-piaster note he wanted to keep as a souvenir. Sister Fidema of the Good Shepherd Convent in Saigon knelt over her suitcase and prayed. "I've been here four years," she said later. "These have been good years until this week. But this has been the saddest ever." The day before, 90 children from the convent had been taken out to Tan Son Nhut but had been...