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Word: strike (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rebuff Ahead. Despite the importance of the Viet Nam speech, other events converged on the President demanding his attention. His address on Latin America, which proved more pragmatic than inspiring, drew a mixed response south of the border. The General Electric strike posed a threat to the economy (see THE WORLD and BUSINESS). Nixon was stung by the Supreme Court decision insisting on the instant school integration that he had earlier termed "extreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Of Peace and Politics | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...debatable. There has long been dispute over the relative efficacy of big-yield weapons v. larger numbers of smaller warheads. The Soviet fondness for monster missiles worries some American strategists, who feel that the U.S.S.R. could eventually use them to wipe out U.S. offensive ICBMs in a surprise first strike. Yet the very number and variety of American nuclear weapons, combined with their wide dispersal, makes any such attack extremely difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Control: Another Missile Gap? | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...working inside the plant. He attributed this to the fact that the warehouse workers were members of the Teamsters' Union. The management did not ignore the pickets, however. Shortly after they arrived, Kelman said, a neatly lettered sign bearing the inscription. "The employees in this company are not on strike," was placed just outside the entrance to the warehouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YPSL, Strikers Join In G. E. Plant Picket | 11/6/1969 | See Source »

...basis of YPSL's action was the large strike which the IUE is holding against G. E. IUE charges that G. E. practice in negotiations of making a take-it-or-leave-it offer at the beginning of the negotiating process is acting in bad faith. The process has in fact been declared illegal by a decision of the National Labor Relations Board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YPSL, Strikers Join In G. E. Plant Picket | 11/6/1969 | See Source »

Demands of the strike center around higher wages, more safety inspections of the appliances being produced, and the request that doctors be available at all times on the plant floor to care for accident victims...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YPSL, Strikers Join In G. E. Plant Picket | 11/6/1969 | See Source »

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