Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Byrne's biggest problem has been the transit strike. By taking a tough stand, she initially had public opinion on her side. The 11,000 transit workers are among the highest paid in the nation; experienced bus drivers make $10.58 an hour. Only a week before the walkout, a settlement seemed in sight. The two Amalgamated Transit Union locals agreed to two cost of living increases a year with a 14% annual ceiling. But then talks abruptly broke...
...State Department one of the planners says the U.S. is now "shadow dancing" with the world, changing military budgets, talking tough with allies, all as part of the plan to reach into the mind of the Ayatullah Khomeini and go even farther-to the Kremlin. The experts believe that at last a spell is being cast beyond the White House, establishing the belief that Jimmy Carter, a reluctant dragon, could indeed bring himself to order fellow Americans into battle...
...promptly placed on full alert, and tanks took up positions at major government buildings. The Carter Administration expressed alarm over the developments. "It's a power play, the three stars against the four stars," said a high official. U.S. Ambassador William Gleysteen Jr. was ordered to convey a tough message to the Korean brass: Keep your hands off politics or risk a grave rupture in U.S. relations. For the time being, at least, that warning held. President Choi, for his part, sought to show that his political timetable was unchanged. Late Friday, a full day ahead of schedule...
...public transportation. Write to the nice people at Vermont Castings for a Defiant wood stove brochure, set aside, for the moment, the necessity to think through a profound unease about nuclear power and a disbelief in the quick fix of synthetic fuels. Get through the winter, and make the tough decisions later...
...wells they have sunk, mostly in the Gulf of Mexico, account for 14% of the nation's current domestic oil production and 23% of its gas. The next place they hope to develop as a major energy source is a tough one: the floor of the ice-jammed Beaufort Sea, about 275 miles above the Arctic Circle, off Alaska's nearly barren north coast...