Word: united
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent U.S. District Court order required B.U. to recognize the 300-member bargaining unit, the union spokesman said. The NLRB will conduct independent investigations of both sides as a result of the charges, he added...
...will grow rapidly and employers can raise wages without jacking up prices; the rise in output per employee will offset the higher costs. If productivity is flat, almost every dollar of wage gains is translated into price boosts. Over the decades, price rises have closely followed increases in employers' unit labor costs?that is, wage gains minus productivity...
...cotton. Despite the fact that the government has begun cracking down (it has burned more than 2,000 tons of marijuana since autumn), it is not inclined to be too harsh on the farmers. Says José Miguel Garavito, the swashbuckling operations officer of the Attorney General's antidrug unit: "It is hard to blame a farmer who is growing corn and earning a few pesos for switching when he seen his neighbors working no harder to grow marijuana and earning lots of pesos. The traffickers come in, give them the seeds and then collect the crop...
...dance (and Matson says they don't think of themselves as dancers), it's the first kind in which the members of the audience do not immediately refer to their own bodies in reacting to the movement on stage. Here, a single dancer's body is only one unit in a larger structure; the ambiguity of the final form frees the onlooker's eye from the insistent logic of ordinary anatomy...
...Project also sought, and won, new audiences for theater. Professional theater was brought for the first time to small towns and rural America. Record numbers attended performances in larger cities. "Children's units" in many cities revolutionized children's entertainment; young Walt Disney was one who drew inspiration from Yasha Frank's Los Angeles performances. Groups like the Spanish unit in Florida and the "Negro units" in many major cities brought series theater to audiences who had been ignored and performers who had been stereotyped...