Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon is 55, Humphrey 57, McCarthy 52, Reagan 57, Wallace 48. *Or some other city. A communications workers' strike, still unsettled at week's end, may force the Democrats to move?perhaps to Miami Beach...
...month drought that had ravaged Uruguay's cattle and sheep, a chief source of income, and badly damaged the economy. Rebellious students who had seized the University of Montevideo and held it for four days finally agreed to leave peacefully. And Uruguay's third general strike in a month ended without Pacheco Areco's having had to use emergency measures. The President still needs, however, all the help he can get: he has set out to tighten the belt of a country that is used to wearing it very loose...
...which employ a quarter of the labor force, had grown to what Pacheco calls a "three-bodies-for-every-job bureaucracy." Pensions, which working mothers, for example, can start collecting after ten years on the job, had become a way of life. Huge, Communist-backed unions were constantly on strike...
Ridiculous? Certainly. But it could come to something almost as bizarre, because last week the N.F.L. was on strike. After six months of bargaining, the owners of the league's 16 teams had acceded to 21 player demands, including increases in the guaranteed minimum salary (to $12,000 for second-year men, $13,000 for third-year men), payments for preseason exhibition games ($500 per game) and such minor benefits as air conditioning in the training-camp barracks. But on the 22nd point-pensions-negotiations broke down. Determined to show its muscle, the N.F.L. Players Association, headed by Detroit...
What happens now? At the very least, if the strike continues for any length of time, veteran players - even though they are working out on their own - figure to report out of shape, will have missed valuable coaching. If it lasts into the season, owners may play with teams composed entirely of nonunion rookies. Or they may not play at all: Baltimore Colts Owner Carroll Rosenbloom has gone so far as to order his front office to work out plans for repaying 50,000 season-ticket holders. In either case, there is genuine concern for the damage a protracted strike...