Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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July of 1970 marked the first major successful effort of agricultural labor organizing in this country. The UFW culminated a five year campaign that year when it convinced the bulk of California's table grape growers to sign contracts giving the union representation over the tiny percentage of farmworkers who toil in the grape vineyards. The international grape boycott was over. The triumph belonged to the hundreds of thousands of boycott supporters and to the farmworkers, who now had a realization that they did have power over their lives and working conditions...
...total of consumer installment debt outstanding has multiplied more than twelve times, to roughly $179 billion-and that does not include home-mortgage debt. If consumers in any month go into hock less rapidly than they did the month before, economists view their self-denial as a worrisome sign. And if Americans ever start to pay off old debts faster than they take on new ones, unsold merchandise piles up at an alarming rate...
...bills. Says Breckenridge: "I found credit hard to resist even when I didn't need it. Beneficial Finance would send me something in the mail saying, 'You're good for $500 right now.' You didn't even have to go to the office, just sign the card and send it in. I went to Vegas on one of our anniversaries like that...
...better alternative is to turn to one of the 170-odd nonprofit community credit counseling services. The services make the debtor sign an agreement to take on no more credit and to hand over all his charge cards. Often a counselor will scissor the cards to pieces before the debtor's eyes. The service then negotiates extended repayment of the loans and collects a fixed monthly payment from the debtor that it parcels out among the creditors...
Perhaps the most powerful sign of how badly Gardner has miscalculated is the belief that a reconciliation between Thomas and Grodin constitutes a happy ending. In fact, their dismal marriage makes the best argument yet for rapid passage of no-fault divorce laws...