Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another feud between Thurman Munson and Reggie Jackson, or some other duo of dueling Yanks, that might have cost the team its title. The Giants, Jets, Knicks, Nets, Islanders and Rangers will not get the chance to test that hypothesis. If all goes as expected, the city's strike-silenced dailies will all be back in print this week for the first time in three months...
...work rules, agreed to accept a six-year contract that will give members an 18% raise over the first three years (amounting to $68 per worker per week), guarantee jobs for all 1,508 regular members and reduce manning levels through attrition. Ten other unions idled by the strike were expected to return to work as well. Indeed, a major breakthrough in the talks came last week when heads of the other unions gathered to hear a report on the status of negotiations from Labor Lawyer Theodore Kheel, who used his role as a consultant to the unions to become...
...publication last month after Publisher Rupert Murdoch agreed to accept any terms eventually worked out between the unions and the other rival papers, a copycat clause that earned Murdoch the nickname "Mr. Me Too" among negotiators. "Both sides came out smelling like a rose," according to Kheel. Yet the strike cost the papers as much as $150 million in advertising and circulation revenues...
What is more, the newspapers and their home town may never be the same. Most local businesses weathered the strike nicely by shifting their advertising dollars into weekly newspapers, spot television and radio, magazines and billboards; some of those dollars may never return to the dailies. Thousands of New Yorkers began reading the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's slickly professional News World or the Gannett Co.'s strike-born suburban daily Today and may stay with them. Others may do without newspapers altogether, as happened after the 114-day strike of 1962-63, when some...
Sollas apparently decided to strike back by playing on Smith Woodward's credulity; he showed a tendency to accept purported new scientific findings as fact before they were rigorously proved. The ploy worked. Shortly after the planted Piltdown remains were found, Smith Woodward enthusiastically staked his reputation on the authenticity of the find. In fact, in a painting that still hangs in the Geological Society's London headquarters, Smith Woodward is one of several eminent scientists shown intensively examining the supposedly precious skull. What is more, he is pictured right next to its "discoverer," an amateur fossil hunter...