Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson's cause was boosted last month when Britain's Trades Union Congress (T.U.C.), an umbrella organization representing 10 million workers in more than 130 unions, voted almost unanimously to support the much touted "social contract." Under this informal agreement, the unions promised to exercise voluntary wage restraint in exchange for the Labor Party's promise of economic and social reforms. Since wage increases are expected to be a chief source of British inflation during the coming year, success of the social contract is Labor's crucial selling point to financially panicked voters...
...House bill would also permit six "directional" signs per mile-three facing each side of the highway. As the amendment is worded, "directional" is an umbrella term covering "rest stops, camping grounds, food, gas and automotive services, lodgings, natural wonders, scenic and historic attractions." The American Institute of Architects contends that by defining directional so loosely, the bill legitimizes 80% of the signs outlawed by the 1965 Act. John Francis, highway beautification coordinator for the Department of Transportation and the bill's most vociferous critic, estimates that it could result in the proliferation of more than a million billboards...
...take special care during the impeachment debate "not to widen the division among Republicans; analyze the evidence in such a way as not to hurt anybody else." He promises to campaign for all Republicans, regardless of how they vote. He told one group: "I can't put the umbrella over all of you, but I can help to wipe away the rain from the faces of those not under the umbrella...
...Reno's aid, issuing a call for help from other U.S. dioceses that brought good tidings: about $1 million in outright gifts and longterm, low-or no-interest loans in amounts ranging from $25,000 to $1 million. Similarly, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, an umbrella organization for U.S. male religious orders, has organized an effort to bail out the La Salettes. Still, that leaves a number of investors whose fate is still unknown, and whose traffic with Mammon may well have left a much more bitter legacy of lost hope, faith and money...
...garment should bring the fund at least half of the $100,000 that it expects to collect from the program this year. That will make up about one-sixth of the fund's 1975 program budget and will go far to help preserve the golden toad, the umbrella bird and the quetzal...