Word: trade-union
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...control because the Prime Minister "knows nothing of economics and is by nature a man who gives in." Moda'i later called Peres "the flying Prime Minister" because of his many trips abroad, and accused Labor ministers of "cynical fraud" for bailing out businesses owned by Histadrut, the Israeli trade-union confederation...
Meanwhile, in his Hawaiian exile, Marcos was served his first subpoena, in connection with a civil case resulting from the 1981 killings of two anti- Marcos trade-union dispatchers in Seattle. The former Philippine President also continues to be named in a host of lawsuits around the U.S. As lawyers for the deposed dictator fended off legal actions, citizens of Davenport, Iowa, responded enthusiastically to a disk jockey's appeal to ease the plight of the Marcoses--sending 1,500 pairs of used footwear, including bowling shoes and swim fins, to replace the collection former First Lady Imelda left behind...
ALEXANDRA BIRYUKOVA, 57, a trade-union official, was Gorbachev's surprise appointment to the Secretariat. A former textile worker, Biryukova has been a Central Committee member for the past decade. Western diplomats viewed her selection as a gesture to Soviet women, who constitute more than half of the population and the work force...
...several people from Ellerbe Associates who designed the palace and the several hundred trade-union volunteers who built it, the resemblance to a gothic cathedral is not merely stylistic. For weeks, through a mortifying, mercurial Minnesota winter, two 80-man shifts have worked six days a week to finish what is, after all, a kind of fairy-tale church. The picturesque asymmetry, however, saves the palace from seeming grave. "Ours was not a modernist solution," said Karl Ermanis, the palace's chief architect, as if there were any doubts. The designers borrowed from King Ludwig II, Piranesi, Gaudi, Maxfield Parrish...
...country house at their disposal. Tens of millions of their less exalted countrymen employ their wits and their blat (arm twisting and family connections) to gain entry to beachfront hotels, often located on the former estates of the prerevolutionary Russian aristocracy. Another much sought- after holiday choice for active trade-union members or people suffering from a diagnosed illness are woodsy spas known as sanatoriums. In theory, admission is by permit only, but in practice, anyone who can wangle a place gets in, and last year 60 million people managed...