Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both sides refuse to accede in this battle, which has already started at the conference-table level. Item 1: Management has demanded an across-the-board wage slash for employees, while the Four Brotherhoods and the non-operating unions have insisted upon an unconditional boost. Item 2: The industry demands the right to change work rules hallowed by tradition and by the seemingly partial administration of the Railway Labor Act; labor categorically refuses any such changes. Item 3: Management has taken out six-month insurance to cover overhead in the event of a prolonged stoppage...
...December, results of this survey will be fully tabulated and then analyzed. Recommendations based upon these findings will be utilized this spring to help reduce the potential $150,000 dining hall deficit...
Various money-saving experiments--based on preliminary indications--will be tested in University dining halls from Dec. 5 to 13. Buffet-style dining, in which each student serves himself, will "definitely" be tried, but other experiments "will depend upon the data we receive," said Trottenberg...
Some experiments which may be tried will not depend upon the current survey, but upon an analysis of wage costs and attendance figures. One money-saving proposal which has been suggested involves closing dining halls for part of the weekend; any decision in this direction will depend largely upon the number of students who do eat weekend meals...
Pigeons are pigeons, and their affinity for public statues is well-known to city dwellers. The Times of London took it upon itself to survey some of the city's monumental figures and their various states of inundation. William Ewart Gladstone: "The melancholy truth is that [he] does not stand close scrutiny these days. His bared head has been made indecently white by the birds of the Strand." Booze-hating Sir Wilfrid Lawson: "The pigeons have dealt most unkindly [with him]." Poet Robert Burns: "[His] slight defacement merely has the effect of giving him a tearful left...