Word: substandard
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They were so cozy that they grew soft about enforcing their agreements. Management protested that Old Warhorse Dubinsky had signed substandard contracts, with nonunion shops out of New York to organize them, thus made it tough for Manhattan manufacturers to compete. Dubinsky hotly denied it. His union countercharged that a group of fly-by-night dressmakers were chiseling on union contracts. They farmed work out to nonunion shops in violation of their contract, paid subcontract wages, welshed on union benefit payments, kept several sets of books. To fight back. Dubinsky demanded that union and management stiffen their policing of contract...
...Demolition of the worst 1,500 of New Orleans' 42,000 substandard buildings to make way for an eleven-acre civic center that will include, beside the new city hall, a Supreme Court building (due for completion this fall), a public library, a state office building and a civil court...
...according to Dr. Rappleye: "In many sections of the country there are now two classes of citizens . . . those who are to be cared for by physicians who have had a satisfactory preparation for medical practice, and those whose medical care will be provided by physicians who are graduates of substandard schools." To Veteran Educator Rappleye (Harvard Medical. '18) the situation is "reminiscent of the diploma-mill era of 50 years ago," when fly-by-night schools turned out thousands of inadequately trained doctors...
...tastes are so completely at variance that only Hollywood would think of them as buddies. Forsythe and Olivia romp through a standard Parisian romance-up the Eiffel Tower and down to the caves; along the Seine for lovemaking; to Notre Dame and the fashion shows. Along the way are substandard complications: Forsythe thinks Olivia has stolen his wallet; Olivia thinks Forsythe is trying to seduce her; Forsythe, eavesdropping on Olivia and her father (Edward Arnold), thinks they are lovers. But they triumph over these tedious misunderstandings and win through to love and marriage. It serves them right...
...film, and essayed some rolling perorations in the inimitable manner of the master, John L. Lewis. McDonald cried that in the current negotiations the steel industry had made an "about-face" on 20 years of collective bargaining, and given his union an "ultimatum" to accept a "substandard contract." After four weeks of negotiating between McDonald and U.S. Steel's John Stephens, the industry's chief spokesman, the differences boiled down to i) a union demand for a 28.3? an hour "package" deal v. a management offer of 14-15?, 2) management's demand for a five-year...