Word: slowdowns
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Firemen refused housekeeping duties, such as checking fire hydrants and inspecting buildings, and the head of the firemen's union warned that the slowdown "could escalate into a full-scale strike" that would leave alarms unanswered and homes in danger...
John Lindsay is not a man to let his troubles get him down. Although a million pupils are out of school, firemen are on a "slowdown," and other public strikes threaten, New York's Mayor seemed as exuberant as ever last week. Returning from a television appearance, he met TIME Correspondent Lansing Lamont for an interview at Grade Mansion. Reported Lamont...
...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...
...ordinary economic rules, Israel ought to be in receivership. After more than a decade of living beyond its means, the country skidded into a deep recession in 1965 when Premier Levi Eshkol's anti-inflationary slowdown proved too abrupt. Unemployment jumped to 10%, and the government for the first time in its history was forced to put the jobless on the dole...
...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...