Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What happened? For one thing, smarting under Indira's quasi-dictatorial rule, the opposition learned to work together for the first time. Said a former Cabinet member: "She has forged us together with bars of steel." Most of the country's leading opposition parties have merged into a new group, the Janata (People's) Party...
...bargain $110 per person, including hotels, meals and guides for a week, groups of 40 tourists will gambol through mechanized mine shafts, mephitic chemical plants and the computer-guided rollers of Krupp's behemoth steel mill in Essen. Lest romance wilt amid the furnaces, adventurers will be whisked away for interludes at centuries-old castles above the once-green valley. Club Med officials hardly need run scared. Still, some 5,000 tourists have signed up to see the Ruhr...
...some notoriety last year as an "artist sculpting my body." He won some title like "Mr. College America" after the initial winner was disqualified because he attended a regrigerator repair school. Although bodybuilders and competitive weightlifters are popular in Europe, Americans have little respect for those who throw the steel around...
Surprisingly, some industry officials have dropped vague hints that the lifetime-security idea may not be totally out of reach. Officially, however, the steel bosses held their tongues. J. Bruce Johnston, vice president of U.S. Steel and chief negotiator for the Big Ten companies, did say that any rise in labor costs would push up the price of steel. Abel's reply: "Pricing is one thing we don't get involved with here...
...Steelworkers' overriding intention is to do away with layoffs to every possible extent. To that end, presidents of union locals in basic steel last week suggested some possible components of a lifetime-security plan. They include negotiating a 32-hour week at 40 hours pay, making more unionists eligible for a special 13-week "extended vacation" program, putting some restrictions on overtime and banning millowners from contracting out work, such as construction, that could be performed in house by Steelworkers' members. The aim: more workers will be needed to turn out any given tonnage of steel, so fewer...