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Word: summers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only councilor Walter Sullivan opposed the measure. However, a similar motion was withdrawn from the council last summer when it appeared unlikely to pass, Betsy Dunn, state chair of the National Organization of Women (NOW), said yesterday...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Council Votes to Back ERA Boycott | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

...spent the summer working on educating people and letting the councilors know that their constituents felt this was an important way to help the ratification process," Dunn said...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Council Votes to Back ERA Boycott | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

...husband is a "regular" summer weekend commuter-regularly late. We fondly refer to the airline as "Scare New England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1979 | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...negotiations on a new three-year contract with the United Rubber Workers this summer, the rubber companies agreed to a significant sweetener in the cost of living adjustment (COLA) provisions. Workers got an advance on anticipated COLA increases; in the first three months of the first year of the contract, for instance, an extra 200 an hour was tacked onto their paychecks, giving some 75,000 workers an extra $600,000 per week in take-home pay. Conceivably, such COLA advances could become widespread; at present 60% of all unionized workers are employed under contracts that have COLA provisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Compensation Woe: How to Pay? | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

There are two more McGees in the works on the author's blue IBM Selectric, which he totes between a house in Florida and a summer fishing camp on a lake in New York's Adirondacks. MacDonald's wife, Dorothy Prentiss, is an artist. He has long since shed any resentment against the other Macdonald, that more critically esteemed thriller writer whose real name is not John Ross Macdonald at all but Kenneth Millar. ("At least," allows John D., "the guy is literate, even if he does keep hitting the same barrel.") The real MacDonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mid-Life Surge of McGee | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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