Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drivers and their union will negotiate with Morgan Memorial concerning the specific demands if the union is accepted by the drivers, as many of the drivers thought it would be yesterday. "We're going to stay out on strike until we get what we want," a driver said. "We'd be stupid not to," he added
...brought unexpected and poignant audience involvement. Sophisticated Prague had thronged to the occasion -officials, diplomats, the liberal writers and intelligentsia. As they watched Albee's comedy of menace, laughter came in awkward places. For the Czechs, the plight of a suburban American family whose neighbors suddenly come to stay was transformed into an agonizing allegory of their national tragedy. When Harry and Edna arrogantly explain why they know their invasion is welcome, angry whispers swept the theater...
...housing prices climb and mortgage loans become costlier and scarcer, more and more people find themselves forced to stay in older houses for longer than they would like. Sooner rather than later, pipes crack, paint peels-and homeowners have to face up to the often traumatic experience of calling in that new aristocrat of the U.S. labor force, the repairman...
...Complaining consumers are the victims of a classic economy of scarcity, which enables contractors and repairmen to charge what they please and get away with it. The need for their services is enormous because few homeowners can perform any complex repair jobs themselves. Construction unions make sure that wages stay high by keeping the supply of craftsmen inadequate to meet the demand In the Oakland, Calif , area, the number of union plumbers, currently 900, is actually shrinking because the union is training only ten apprentices this year. Anachronistic spread-the-work rules prevent the most efficient...
...People can stay around the coffee house for about a week looking us over without doing anything." Little said. "Then they'll have to decide either to participate or to leave...