Word: unites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lawyers and the farmers and the power company have returned to the court, this time to argue over what legal and environmental issues must be settled before the plant--a 2800-megawatt, coal-burning unit--may be built...
Temple's guard unit's most amazing feat to date was its remarkable slow-down game against Tennessee in the volunteer classic last Saturday. In that battle of boredom, Tennessee sleep-walked to an amazing 11-6 triumph...
Jack Warner shut down the animation unit for a few years during the early '50s when he thought that 3-D was the thing of the future. During the hiatus, Jones worked for Walt Disney, whom he admires ("the D.W. Griffith of animation"), but whose creative control he found restrictive. After a few more years of activity, the Warner Bros, animation unit was closed for good in 1962. Since then Jones has worked mostly on TV, producing a syndicated series called The Curiosity Shop and directing an occasional half-hour animated special, like the sweetly eccentric A Very Merry...
When an opening for a higher job occurs, workers can "bid" for it on the basis of their length of service in the unit. But these rules apply only within narrowly defined groups of jobs, or "lines," and seniority is not transferable from one line to another. Thus if a black with long years of service reaches the top of, say, a blast furnace line, he can go no higher unless he transfers to, perhaps, the rolling-mill section-and then he must start at the bottom of that line, often behind workers who have been employed at the plant...
...French takeover in the 1860's Vietnam was an integrated traditional society. The basic social unit was the village, which for the most part functioned autonomously, with strict direction from the imperial government in Hue. Peasants tilled their plots of rice land and participated in village affairs in accord with an ancient body of traditions and laws. Land distribution was not equal, but precedent and a sense of community in the villages--along with the possibility of peasant unrest--limited the inequities. Much of the land was owned communally, by the village; the proceeds from it were used to help...