Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money to pay for $350 worth of warmup jackets after the sponsor backed out, Sockol ended up mediating a personality conflict between the coach and the sponsor, who agreed to return. Sockol also helped heal a festering labor dispute at a local mill when he got union leaders to talk to management officials about who would pay the life-insurance benefit of a worker who died during the strike (they split it fifty-fifty, then settled their other differences as well). Herb Brown, the Atlantic City Press's Mr. Action, called in the city's most respected roofer...
...there was a lot of serious talk about why alienation appears to decrease where one can rely on the third-party intervenor, i.e., why Action Lines are so popular. "Poor people have services provided," theorized Rita Levine of WELI'S Call for Action in Hamden, Conn. "Rich people can buy them. People in the middle get squeezed. They feel impotent in the corporate marketplace. They complain, get rebuffed and figure, Why bother? Well, we bother for them...
...President Carter's insistence that he would fight world hunger "as hard as possible." Linowitz has also been encouraged by the interest shown in the commission by many members of Congress and international agencies. Said Linowitz, echoing one of Carter's favorite themes: "In all that talk of human rights, if you don't preserve the most basic-the right to stay alive-the rest doesn't matter very much...
Meanwhile, at week's end the presidents of three of the front-line states -Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, Angola's Agostinho Neto and Mozambique's Samora Machel-convened a meeting in Zambia to talk Kaunda into changing his mind. One of the problems both Zambia and Tanzania will face as a result of Kaunda's decision is that the Tazara railroad will be plunged into financial straits, making it difficult for the two governments to pay back a $450 million Chinese loan used to build the railroad...
...college should have a different attitude toward race relations than that in the larger world. Otherwise, this very famous diversity we talk about at Harvard does not really exist," Epps added...