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...month-long wildcat walkout by 3,000 precision toolmakers at British Leyland, England's largest automaker and the only major one still under British control, shut down 15 factories, stopped production of all but six of the company's 18 car models, idled 44,000 assembly-line workers and threatened the troubled giant with near-total paralysis. Bowing to pressures from the government and their own union officials, the toolmakers voted last week to go back to their lathes. It was a significant reprieve for Britain's Labor government, which sorely needs worker support for Phase...
...reacts against its own desires. The menage functions as a melange, not as a unit but a confused mixture. Leo (Grant Bue), a socially inept intellectual, craves but avoids physical fulfillment which Celeste (Susan Roffer) vainly offers. Meanwhile, Leo's old college roommate Todd (Jeffery Harper), formerly the campus wildcat, can only manage sexual flings. Groping to awaken Todd's emotions, Lynnette (Elizabeth Genovese) merely succeeds in using love to achieve her egoistic ends. The four characters remain estranged from themselves and their partners...
...second period ended 6-6 after Marden pushed the puck past the beleagured Wildcat goalie, Mark Evans, substituting for Dan Magnarelli, who fell victim to nine Cornell goals the night before...
...majority of Britain's 26 million workers appear dead set against an extension of wage restraint. Their unrest is illustrated by a wildcat strike of 3,000 toolmakers that has brought most auto production to a standstill at the plants of British Leyland, makers of Morris, Austin, Triumph, Rover, and Jaguar cars, and idled 33,000 workers. The toolmakers are striking over the erosion of their "differential"-the margin by which the wages of skilled workers exceed those of the less skilled. Since the social contract held all increases to a flat monetary standard and ruled out raises...
...former ally "a disaster as president." For evidence, they point to his inability to control disorderly meetings of the U.M.W.'s 21-member international board, Miller's habit of spending long weekends in Charleston, W. Va., near his home, and his failure to check the rash of wildcat coal strikes that have plagued the industry during his tenure, including last summer's prolonged walkout that idled more than 90,000 miners...