Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long negotiations with the kitchen workers, the University continued its tactical marriage of legal expertise and threat. Harvard negotiators resolutely refused to improve the kitchen workers' benefits package because the University is conducting a benefits review. More talk, more committee meetings, more study, a long, drawn-out process that guarantees nothing to the worker. When the union membership refused to ratify the contract without a compromise on benefits and openly expressed a lack of faith in University promises, Edward W. Powers, Harvard's chief labor negotiator, threatened to withdraw wage concessions. And the union fell into line. Powers also repeatedly...
...that reported incidents of child abuse in the state of Massachusetts have jumped from 122 in 1967 to 15,000 last year, an increase only partly due to a 1974 law redefining child abuse to include "neglect." "Nine years ago," he admits, "I thought I could go in and talk to parents and correct mistakes they'd been making for the past 33 years of their lives. But there...
Sometimes the talk got tough. Asked to select three for lunch with Carter, Dayan replied, "We want four, and if we don't have four, they can have lunch without me." Four it was. After all, another plate on the table among neighbors is no big deal. Now and then Carter grew weary of the lawyering. Around the hearth in such intimate circumstances, good men, he thought, should quit nitpicking and get down to real meanings. "That's as much as you are going to get," he told the Israelis at one point. "That's clear...
Blair House has heard just about every kind of talk before, some strong and some gentle. WilHam Tecumseh Sherman, the man who later marched to the sea, was married there in 1850. One day in 1861 at breakfast, Navy Captain David Glasgow Farragut ("Damn the torpedoes-full speed ahead!") was told he was to command the Union attack against New Orleans. And in a front room Robert E. Lee turned down command of the Union armies, a melancholy prelude to many visits by the anguished Lincoln, who used to prowl the area...
Negotiations are 95% complete for a second-stage Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. So declared Paul Warnke, the outgoing director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, after he and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance finished two days of talks in the Kremlin last week. But two years ago, the then Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, similarly proclaimed that SALT II was 95% complete. Last year the Carter Administration spoke glowingly of wrapping up negotiations by Christmas of 1977. Now there is talk of a treaty by this Christmas. Observes Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "Everyone is going around...