Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DENVER--In the first major union test of President Carter's wage-price guidelines, leaders of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic International Union rejected contract offers from 21 companies yesterday...
...Wojtyla of Cracow, he displayed a rhetorical power and disciplined intelligence that made him a man to be reckoned with by the Communist rulers of his native Poland, and a humility and charm that endeared him to the people. The unanswered question was how willing he would be to test these gifts on the world stage. As 1979 began, he seemed quite willing indeed. In planning his first two foreign trips, to Mexico later this month and to Poland in the spring, he chose countries whose populations are overwhelmingly Catholic but whose governments have been, for very different reasons, notoriously...
That unblemished record will face a test later this week. McLaughlin will give the weary hoopsters little rest, as the team heads back on the court today to practice for key IAB match-ups against Penn Friday and Princeton Saturday...
Many opponents of the China deal rallied round Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, who in his text for a televised reply to Carter said: "The President called into question this nation's treaty world." Goldwater credibility filed suit in throughout the federal court in Washington to test Carter's authority to end the 1954 defense treaty with Taiwan. Contending that no treaty can be terminated without a two-thirds vote by the Senate, Goldwater called Carter's decision "an out right abuse of presidential power...
Whatever settlement OCAW reaches, with or without a strike, will influence the negotiations for a new master freight agreement to replace the one that expires March 31 for 300,000 members of the Teamsters. That contract will be the real make-or-break test of the guidelines. The Teamsters, unlike OCAW, are traditional pattern setters, and a truck strike could paralyze the whole economy...