Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trade unions, which only the week before were issuing dire warnings about the results of a Tory victory, also did something of a turnabout by offering soothing, tranquilizing words to a public that is still jittery about their growing power. Jack Jones, the general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, and the most powerful...
...will exacerbate the situation the way they did during the coal strike last winter. Wilson's power over the unions, however, has largely disappeared. Not only have the big unionists--like Len Murray, secretary-general of the TUC, Hugh Scanlon of the engineers union and Jack Jones of the Transport Workers--proved that they are the most powerful men in Britain, but most of Wilson's own party is now solidly behind them...
...Labor Party's hopes for union cooperation were further dashed by the fact that the strikers are members of the Transport and General Workers' Union, whose leader, Jack Jones, is the chief union architect of the social contract. Although Jones is regarded as one of Britain's most influential and respected union leaders, he has been unable to persuade the strikers to return to work...
...idea that they should be recreation areas rather than simple nature preserves was humane and revolutionary. At the time most people were justifiably delighted. As he pressed on, Moses did have a few prescient critics who clearly foresaw that his highways would encourage more cars and ruin public transport as people shifted from rail to rubber. Moses scorned them of course. Visions of cloverleafs danced in his head. He was, moreover, increasingly isolated by arrogance, power and growing deafness...
...district attorney's office that was prompted by the publication of the paper, a study of the effect on a fetus of penicillin administered to the pregnant woman. The four defendants were not only charged with carrying off the tissue, but in a separate count with "aiding" the alleged transport. In a related case, Dr. Kenneth Edelin, chief obstetrician at BCH, was charged on the same day with manslaughter, in connection with the "death" of a 24-week-old fetus...