Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene of the arrests. Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook grabbed a plane to San Francisco as soon as he heard the news. "You deserve a little luck in this business," he says. "Who should be on the same plane but Catherine Hearst?" As soon as the seat-belt sign went off, Cook conducted a leisurely interview with Patty's mother. In New York, Associate Editor James Atwater and Senior Writer Ed Magnuson shared the major writing duties, and nearly all the Nation section's writers and researchers worked all night and into the closing day to complete...
Gromyko gave his blessing to the current U.S. effort to negotiate a long-term grain agreement that would end the Soviet practice of plunging disruptively into the U.S. market whenever Russia's own harvests run short. Moscow is, in fact, ready to sign an agreement to purchase between 5 million and 8 million tons of American grain annually over the next five years and allow much of it to be shipped in U.S. vessels at a favorable rate-$16 per ton instead of the current...
...matchup today, then, will not be the Crimson's defensive line versus Holy Cross's protection, although the development of the pass rush is a big area of concern to Restic. Instead, the telling sign will be the success of the offense in opening the Crusader's ranks...
...increasing teacher militance all over the U.S. is only one sign of the deep-rooted changes affecting the nation's 2,160,000 public school teachers. Only a decade or so ago, teaching was regarded as a job offering a modicum of prestige if not much money, a secure future and lots of vacation. Indeed, mothers used to urge their college-age daughters to get a teacher's certificate as insurance against bad times...
Even last week Chavez charged irregularities: "Right now 20% to 30% of the workers are not voting because of fear, intimidation and threats." Apparently some stiff-arming was going on. "My foreman said if we sign with Chavez, goodbye job," worried one worker in Delano. A new five-member State Agricultural Labor Relations Board -which Teamsters and growers argue is heavily biased in favor of Chavez -will have its hands full sorting out charges of election fraud as balloting continues over the next unquiet months...