Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public explanation was that Hirohito, whose October calendar is crowded with such events as a national athletic meet in Chiba prefecture and the 60th dedication of the Ise Shrine,* is simply too busy to make the trip this year. In fact, the imperial regrets were yet another sign of the internal political troubles besetting the eight-month-old Liberal Democratic regime headed by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka...
...Detroit Lions running back, suggested that abuses in player recruitment are more common than is generally suspected. Owens revealed that while he was a high school senior in Miami, Okla., one college offered to deliver a $5,000 cash bonus to him at the local airport if he would sign with its team. Another school, he said, countered with a $10,000 enticement. "I was offered cars, wardrobes, free fraternity dues, you name it," said Owens, who declined to identify the offending schools. At Oklahoma, "all I ever received was a scholarship and a chance to play football. I feel...
...first quarter. Earnings on each dollar of sales rose too-to 5.7%, or .5% more than a year ago, by one preliminary estimate. Generally, high profits are good news: they fuel the engine of a free-enterprise economy. But in this case, the gains are one more sign of an overheating boom -and, more specifically, they threaten to start the wage-price spiral whirling again by prompting labor leaders to make outsize pay demands...
...odds against Chavez are long. If many more growers sign with the Teamsters, his union could be wiped out; and most growers are eager to get rid of the U.F.W. at nearly any price. Many of those in the Coachella Valley signed Teamster contracts after only a single day of formal bargaining, during which, Chavez charges, no genuine farm workers sat at the negotiating table. The Teamsters accepted a contract calling for a wage of $2.30 an hour this year, a bit less than the $2.40 that Chavez got for his followers, and also allowed growers to bring back...
...Some people thought it was a joke," Frost said yesterday, "and some thought it was serious and were afraid to sign...