Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instinct and tradition, U.S. labor unions have been content to leave the actual running of companies to management, preferring to stress the bread-and-butter issues of wages, hours and working conditions. But in Europe, worker participation in management decision making is an established idea that keeps spreading continually into more countries and industries. The practice, known in German as Mitbestimmung (literally, having a voice in), took root shortly after World War II in West Germany, where coal miners and steel workers began sitting alongside bosses on industry supervisory boards. In recent years, the notion of giving workers a greater...
...week the stress in public pronouncements was on moderation. Interviewed in Danang, P.R.G. Foreign Minister Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh spoke of building a "peaceful, independent, neutral South Viet Nam"; she even spoke of the possibility that Big Minh "might still have some role to play in the future of Viet...
...Navy and Air Force, plus technology and economic-aid programs, will continue to provide plenty of muscle for an active American role in Asia (see map). The shape of the policy, however, will change. Some State Department experts argue that in the future the U.S. should place greater stress on bilateral relations; thus they foresee the eventual fading away of the ineffectual Southeast Asia Treaty Organization...
...been breached by the French in Algeria and, especially, by America in Viet Nam. The producers are dismayed that Ophuls failed to show any prominent U.S. Government officials. More important, they claim that Ophuls did not deliver the movie for which he contracted. "We bought a concept, with particular stress on the interviews," David Puttnam of V.P.S. explained to TIME'S Lawrence Malkin in London. "We got a long, rambling personal statement, which is commercial death for us." Ophuls' original intention had begun to change during filming, as he had warned might happen. He informed the producers...
Steingut denies that the effort to establish a state bank was prompted by the UDC affair. He prefers to stress that such an institution would keep money deposited in the state from being invested in development elsewhere, and serve as a yardstick to measure the performance of private banks in meeting community needs. The profits that the bank generates could possibly be channeled to the state treasury and used to defray governmental costs...