Word: wildcatted
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West German workers poured out of their factories onto the streets in sudden wildcat strikes. In several cities, there were spontaneous demonstrations by young people in support of Chancellor Willy Brandt. "Ah, oh, eh,/ Willy is okay," they chanted. At other times, West Germans huddled round their televisions and radios with a rapt attention that customarily is reserved only for championship soccer matches...
Penn, which has gone from a second-division Ivy track school to the IC4A title in less than three years, needed a spill by the Wildcat's Greg Govan in the 600-yd. run to take the meet. Govan was considered a certain point-scorer, and when he was eliminated, Villanova needed a first in the two-mile relay to take the title for a sixth year. They failed, finishing fourth...
...will also discourage such extremely risky ventures as investing in wildcat oil drilling and backing Broadway plays. The reason is that in the past, high-bracket investors could write off expenses on such projects from their regular income, yet declare any profits from the sale of the investment at the preferential capital-gains rate of 25%. The narrowing of the difference between those two rates in some cases hardly makes the great risks of failure worthwhile...
...personal fortune, which was once estimated to be $480 million but by King's account has shrunk to $42 million. The keystone of that fortune, King Resources stock, has dropped from $34 a share to less than $1 in two years. The onetime financial whiz of the wildcat oil drillers has asked the courts to protect him from his creditors while he tries to work out a plan to repay them...
...agreed that workers should be organized, but disagreed over whether the most effective place to organize is at the workplace or in the community. The six-page economy proposal reflected both points of view. It supported "all strikes which attempt to break the wage guidelines" and gave priority to "wildcat, illegal and profit-limiting strikes," and called on unions to fight the divisiveness of racism and sexism and supported rank-and-file union insurgents...