Word: six-day
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...most ominous dispute, Solidarity's national commission passed a defiant resolution calling for a five-day week by declaring Saturday a nonworking day. Since most Poles are usually required to work a six-day week, this was a provocative departure. Several union locals, representing shipyard workers in Gdansk and Gdynia, coal miners in Silesia, and most of the 16,000 workers at the giant Ursus tractor factory outside Warsaw, threatened to force the demand by not showing up for work on Saturday. The Ministry of Labor, Wages and Social Affairs responded by instructing factory managers to dock...
That decision is preposterous, so preposterous it's hard to imagine. As Cambridge city manager James L. Sullivan said, "Who ever heard of a six-day transit system?" But, beginning February 1, it may well be reality. The directors of the fiscally strapped T say the suspension of Sunday service is needed to save money, and will have little effect on commuters or merchants...
...Samaria, as he calls it) as the historical birthright of the Jews; the Egyptians find that position exasperating and irrational. By contrast, Peres favors a plan that calls for the return of nonstrategic portions of the West Bank to Jordan, which lost the area to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Beyond that, Peres believes that a joint Jordanian-Palestinian state on the occupied West Bank, headed by Jordan's King Hussein, is more feasible than trying to achieve Palestinian autonomy...
David slaying Goliath, the Greeks at Thermoplylae, the American Revolution, the Six-Day War, the Miracle Mets, and now chalk up one more to the underdogs: The Game...
...door for the stationing of Soviet troops in Syria. The new flirtation between Jordan and Iraq, not to mention the presence of Soviet supply ships in Aqaba harbor, was also worrisome to the Israelis. Warned Prime Minister Menachem Begin: "King Hussein has forgotten the lesson of the 1967 Six-Day War [when Jordan lost East Jerusalem and the West Bank by coming to Egypt's aid] and is jumping on the Iraqi bandwagon. I have the impression that this is not a very wise move on his part." The King justified his support for Iraq on the ground...