Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...term, notes Paul Baudler of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Frankfurt, "but if you talk to a German banker, he'll talk about 'flight capital.' " A long list of gloomy economic realities -slumping stock values on European exchanges, high unemployment rates, the rise of left-wing parties and the inability of liberal, middle-of-the-road governments to deal effectively with these problems-has prompted a chorus of Spenglerian gloom from European business leaders...
...ceremonial voodoo jewelry while working. Still, her religion so attached her to the artifacts that she resisted the request with a complaint to the Massachusetts commission against discrimination. Unfortunately, the issue she presented was left muddled: the airline compromised, permitting her to wear her voodoo jewelry with half sho"wing and the other half concealed. Questions: Is there not some limit to an individual's right to insist on private taste in dress while working for an employer doing business with the public? Where was fair play most faulted in the case of a New York City woman...
Ward, advised by the National Association for Freedom, a right-wing organization made up mostly of businessmen, refused to cooperate with ACAS. He rejected its proposal to poll his employees on whether or not they wanted union representation. When ACAS polled the striking workers anyway, they opted for the union. ACAS then recommended that the company recognize APEX. But Ward went to court to contend that the ballot had been improperly conducted...
Such was the military-industrial reaction last week to Jimmy Carter's stunning and almost wholly unexpected decision to kill the Air Force's request for 244 swing-wing B-1 bombers. The B-1s were to have replaced the aging U.S. fleet of 330 B-52s-a few of which are older than some of the men who fly aboard them. In contrast, there was jubilation among liberals like New York Representative Jonathan Bingham and Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire. who have long argued that the B-1 is an outlandishly expensive dinosaur. Iowa Democrat John Culver...
Both sides faced risks. By helping the Andreotti regime stay in power, the Communists risked antagonizing their own left wing, not to mention the extreme left splinter groups (including many students). The Christian Democrats, who had always vowed not to form a partnership with the Communists, could alienate some support if they seemed now to be reneging on that promise. But Andreotti said he thought the agreement "refutes the theory that Italy is ungovernable." Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer called it "a forward step" that gave the country a badly needed "breath of relief...