Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union members at the meeting, however, said they mistrusted the University's verbal offer. "It's not written on paper, and we don't know if Harvard will go back on its word," one worker said...
Rabkin then followed up his verbal warning with a letter telling Schunior she would be fired if the incident was repeated. Schunior says she was careful to ask when handing out the pamphlets whether the recipient was a patient or an employee. After this incident, Local 880 filed a grievance with the NLRB charging an unfair labor practice that violated Section 7 of the NLRA. Section 7 guarantees employees the right to choose whether or not they want to join a union. After the complaint was filed, the hospital changed its rule to forbid one-to-one solicitation...
Lashman said last week that Harvard will continue installing items in compliance with the law. Thomas Bracken, an attorney for a Brookline community group opposed to the power plant, said Harvard officials have given him a verbal agreement that they will not install the disputed items until the trial resolves the issue. Lashman, however, said he knew of no such agreement...
...Stoppard were not a playwright, he would probably be a magician-or a card shark. He delights in illusions and confusions, puns and verbal crostics, taking away with his left hand what he has just given with his right. In Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, at Washington's Kennedy Center, he has taken his art to its immediate limit: the play itself is a trick...
...strong Gallic accent of a man raised in Stuttgart? His colleagues and adversaries are French too, but they cannot figure out why Clouseau talks that way or, mostly, what he is talking about. "Leu and order," he says, meaning what he has sworn to uphold; every sentence contains a verbal banana peel...