Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some labor-law experts would allow strikes by "nonessential" public employees, such as Government clerks, while retaining the strike ban for such essential employees as policemen, firemen and public-transit workers. Indeed, Puerto Rico permits that distinction in its commonwealth constitution. One potential effect, of course, is that strikes might eventually be banned for private "essential" employees, such as defense workers...
...spur strikes. In contrast to private industry, public employees deal with administrators who lack full power of the purse, and a strike may be the only way to impress those who control the money-mayors, governors, legislators. When the public employees happen to be vitally needed nurses, teachers, transit workers and the like, they have an unmistakable power to rouse public opinion against a public employer whose inability to settle a dispute casts him in a poor political light-or, conversely, to rouse public opinion against themselves...
...York transit strike made it difficult for brokers to get to lower Manhattan offices. But for anyone who reached Wall Street, the walk was worth it. In the past 69 years, the market has risen 43 times in January, to the point that the upsurge has become a post-Christmas tradition. But never has there been anything like last week. Day after day, the Dow-Jones industrial average broke its own alltime records. At week's end the average had reached 986.13, less than 14 points from the 1000 mark that the Street considers a mystical number. Even though...
...Year's Day, their swag recovered, the thieves flee to a suburban hideout with the 100 million and a doe-eyed poule, impishly played by Marie Laforêt. Accidentally glued together in transit, the franc notes must be washed and ironed, Marie decrees. Her laundry is only half done, festooning every square inch of space, when someone notices that gendarmes have surrounded the villa-not to reclaim the clean lucre, after all, but to capture a wild bull in the garden. Though Department Store follows the perennial Rififi formula, Director Pierre Grimblat has wrapped up an ingenious package...
Debate over the New York City transit strike has brought to my attention an attitude I have been noticing more and more among Harvard and Radcliffe students this year. The best name for this attitude is, I think, the New Snobbery. It can be contrasted with the Old Snobbery shown by many students' parents when they were in Cambridge twenty-five or thirty years...