Word: softener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soften the impact, the railroads agreed to pay dismissed workers up to 60% of their regular wages for three years, and help pay to retrain them for other jobs. The cost of such aid would be high to the railroads, already suffering under competition from trucks, buses and planes. Even so, the job eliminations that the railroads want probably would result in savings of some $350 million annually after ten years. It is unlikely that the railroads can recoup the full $500 million a year that they claim featherbedding costs, largely because in some states the size of railroad crews...
...product of two years' work by a committee that Kaiser Chairman Edgar Kaiser, 54, and the United Steelworkers set up in a joint effort to prevent a repetition of the bitter 1959 steel strike. The plan aims to avoid endless haggling over wage rates and to soften the impact of technological change in the rapidly automating steel industry. Basic elements...
...arbitration board-C. & N.W. Chairman Ben Heineman and Telegraphers' President George Leighty-canceled each other out.) The essence of Garrett's decision was that al though the C. & N.W. must discuss proposed layoffs with the union, the final decision would be the railroad's alone. To soften the blow to the union, the railroad agreed to give the union 90 days' notice of firings and to pay discharged telegraphers 60% of their annual earnings for as long as five years...
...offer at Geneva to soften its demand for on-site nuclear inspection stations (see THE NATION), is based in part on the careful reckonings of a little-known Boston electronics company. Since its incorporation 15 years ago, Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier, Inc., has timed or measured every U.S. nuclear blast...
Melbourne scored his biggest political success with Queen Victoria. When she succeeded to the throne at 18, Melbourne became her mentor, tried to soften her stern morality. In his wry way, he explained politics to her: "People who talk much of railroads and bridges are generally Liberals." In turn, the Queen adored Melbourne, disliked the less gallant Tories. But in 1841, his last year as Prime Minister, Melbourne unhappily noticed the change Victoria was making in the temper of the country. "This damned morality," he exploded, "will ruin everything...