Word: triennially
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This year, it was supposed to have been different. Ford Motor Co. was struck in 1967, General Motors in 1970 and Chrysler in 1973, but this time everyone in a position to prophesy had said that the triennial contract talks between the United Auto Workers and the automobile manufacturers would surely end amicably. It was not to be. Last week 170,000 Ford employees in 22 states put down their tools and walked off the lines...
Surrounded by aides, Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, strode into the union's Solidarity House last week to perform one of Detroit's triennial rites: the selection of a strike target. The union never shuts down the entire industry; it picks one company to concentrate on in the hope that the selected victim will agree to the union's proposals rather than lose sales to its non-struck rivals. Woodcock's announcement: it will be Ford that must reach agreement by Sept. 14 or face a walkout...
...great moment in church history is before us, and the majority of this court is allowing it to pass by." Even so, the controversy over whether the church should admit female priests is certain to continue into late 1976, when the church hopes to settle the issue at its triennial General Convention...
Actually, the House of Bishops has been in favor of ordaining women, but the measure to allow it failed in a 1973 vote by the House of Deputies. Women priests could possibly be ordained in 1976, if the next triennial convention rules that the language of the constitution permits such a move. If a constitutional amendment is deemed necessary, two successive conventions would have to vote favorably...
...with the question: evangelism will be a major topic of its big, once-every-seven-years assembly, scheduled to be held in Jakarta next summer. Evangelism is the single item on the agenda of a special World Methodist Council meeting in Jerusalem next fall, as well as for the triennial Synod of the world's Roman Catholic bishops convening in Rome in September...