Word: slowdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frustrations in tennis, explaining to a newsman: "I had to get rid of my H.I. -that means 'hostility instincts.' " At week's end came yet another threat to the mayor's authority-and a fresh supply of H.I.: the police force began a slowdown in an effort to win higher wages...
...almost the next breath, he told a Manhattan meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board: "If ever there is to be a year of bliss for the American economy it will not be 1969." Predicting that consumers will soon slow their heavy buying, Okun forecast a gradual slowdown of economic expansion. Along with that, he said, will come a rise in unemployment, a profit squeeze on business, and continued but smaller price increases. Painful though that prospect is, Okun and many other experts on NICB's rostrums agreed that it is the minimum price that the U.S. must...
...partly to protect that record that O'Brien is now laboring for Humphrey's election. "If we fail," he says, "it will signal a slowdown in the nation, an unwinding of what we have done...
Minor League Activity. Nowhere have slowdowns caused more trouble than in New York City. Last summer more than 3,000 city welfare employees staged a "work-in," during which they showed up at the office but refused to process cases. Unhappy over slow progress in contract talks, 115 nurses at two city hospitals phoned in sick one day this month, an epidemic that forced doctors and supervisory personnel to take over their chores. Three weeks ago, embroiled in a dispute over how many new fire fighters the force should hire, uniformed firemen and the city averted a threatened slowdown only...
This week the 1,000-member subway-supervisors union plans to meet and decide what action to take if there is no progress on contract negotiations with New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The union may strike or show its grievance with a slowdown. Even if it chooses the latter course, says Union Chief Frank Tedesco, the troubles for the city's 4,500,000 daily subway riders would "make the Long Island Rail Road tie-up look like minor-'league activity...