Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was plenty of rheum at the top. During the coal strike, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell discussed hardships in the "ECAR region." When reporters asked about the acronym, Powell blurted, "That is a little bureaucratic jargon I picked up. I don't know what it means." He and others learned that the acronym stands for East Central Reliability Council, a group of utility companies. They were to learn more from Representative Gerry Studds of Massachusetts, who wrote his constituents: "Air Force to do EIS on PAVE PAWS." Translation: there was to be an environmental impact statement about...
That speech is remembered well by the kintandeiras, the hard-nosed Angolan businesswomen who have traditionally bought food wholesale and sold retail at the marketplace. In recent weeks they have been on strike, protesting against the low retail prices set by the government. Swordfish, for example, is listed at about 200 a pound at the market, and is unavailable. But a few lucky consumers get swordfish from fishermen friends, who peddle their catch out on the "island," the curving sand peninsula that protects Luanda harbor from the sea. There, a pound of swordfish goes for about 45¢ or 55?...
...looked like a flagging economy, the President had begun the year by calling for a $25 billion tax cut and a $60.6 billion budget deficit in fiscal 1979, which started Oct. 1. As late as March, misled by alarmist predictions from Energy Secretary James Schlesinger that a continued coal strike would cripple national production, Administration aides led by Robert Strauss forced on mine operators a settlement that will raise wages and benefits nearly 40% over three years...
Interest in Mexico's energy wealth reached fever pitch last month, when Pemex, the government monopoly, revealed the latest strike in the Chicontepec field near the Gulf Coast city of Tampico. Pemex Chief Jorge Diaz Serrano estimated that the field would double the country's potential reserves of oil and gas to more than 200 billion...
...know this is a money town now." The better bars echo with the accents of Texas and Oklahoma, since Americans have been quietly allowed in to market equipment and technical advice. Brazilians, Frenchmen and Israelis are also eager to buy Mexico's oil and gas if Pemex does not strike a deal with...