Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Filho is firmly and conscientiously risking his personal popularity. Earlier this month he vetoed a pay rise for 15,000 doctors who work for the federal government or institutes it sponsors. Last week, as a result, Brazil's doctors threatened a nationwide sitdown strike...
President Eisenhower yesterday appointed John T. Dunlop, professor of Economics, as a member of a three-man emergency board to investigate a strike-threatening dispute on most of the nation's railroads...
...jobs by modern machines. In addition to basic liberal arts, he set such students to studying animal husbandry, soil chemistry and farm machinery, gave them a third year of working at a job under college supervision. After that, armed with an associate of arts certificate, they are ready to strike out for themselves...
...seven months the labor situation at the Government's vital Oak Ridge and Paducah atomic-energy plants had been as explosive as an Abomb. The C.I.O.'s Gas, Coke & Chemical Workers union wanted a raise in pay, angrily threatened a crippling strike to get it; Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., which runs the plants, turned down the demands. After a three-day strike last July, Labor Secretary James Mitchell and C.I.O. President Walter Reuther both pleaded for a settlement, but negotiations bogged down again; an 80-day injunction only postponed the inevitable showdown...
...Conciliation Service stepped into the fight. By keeping the negotiators in session for 28 out of 34 hours, patiently smoothing over differences, the FMCS mediator eventually got labor and management to accept its own proposal for a 10? package wage increase. Last week, just 30 minutes before the final strike deadline, the pact was agreed on, and Washington breathed a sigh of relief...