Word: walnut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What exactly does go on behind the ivory curtain separating the walnut panels of the masters' residences from the postered walls of student rooms...
...strike, at Diamond Walnut Growers in Stockton, Calif., was just such an issue. After 700 union members walked out in 1991, the firm hired replacement workers to process and package its 100,000 tons of nuts a year. The Teamsters demanded the jobs back, and the company refused, a standoff that persists today. But in 1995 the strike was seen by presidential aides as a chance, the memo said, to "rekindle" the Teamster bosses' affection for Clinton. Identifying the strike as one of Carey's "biggest problems," the memo urged Ickes to "assist in any way possible...
...assist he did. Teamster officials, with a fine understanding of political pressure points, asked Ickes to put Kantor on the case. Who better to jawbone the management of Diamond Walnut than the man charged with opening foreign markets for American nuts? "I remember calling Mickey and saying, 'This is something bothering the Teamsters,'" Ickes told TIME. Said a White House veteran familiar with the issue: "Implicit in such messages is, Bring pressure to bear...
...interview last week, Kantor said he called the company, but out of a long-standing interest in farm workers. He said he discussed the company's views of the strike with a top official and asked "what were the prospects" of settlement, but did not offer a solution. Diamond Walnut does a third of its business overseas, a share Kantor could have helped boost as Trade Rep. Still, he says the contacts were "appropriate." A Senate committee is investigating whether he is right...
...while John E. Dough '02 may be accepted to Harvard after his moist deluxe walnut brownies win the Betty Crocker Bake-Off three years in a row, the admissions process realizes that Dough may get fed up with his baking sheets once on campus...