Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rose by 15%, workers decided they had had it; unions throughout Britain announced that they intended to seek gains of 20% to 100% beginning this autumn. For Callaghan, the unions' actions threatened a political crisis as well as an economic one: Liberal Party leaders warned that they would withdraw their crucial 13 votes in the House of Commons from the Labor government unless it effectively restrains wages. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey and union leaders suggested the twelve-month rule as a compromise, since it would at least defer big wage increases until next year, when inflation...
Spence said her office, which now handles certain housing matters, will not know how many spaces will be available for tranfers until September 28, the last day students may withdraw from the College without paying...
...concerned that at $3 a bu., the target price for wheat will be "an incentive to expand production. The cost of the program will get so high that it will have to be modified." Others argue that the 20% set aside for wheat will accomplish little, since farmers will withdraw their less productive land and concentrate on planting high-yield acreage. In fact, some Agriculture Department officials project that even a full 20% set-aside program will cut production by no more than 8%. There is also some question as to whether the cutbacks were announced in time: in Colorado...
Johnson is a product of northern Alabama's Winston County. In that rocky hill country, few 19th century landowners had slaves, and Winston attempted to withdraw from Alabama when the state seceded from the Union. Much of the county became Republican; at one point. Johnson's father was the only Republican in the Alabama legislature...
Territory The Israelis told the Secretary of State that they were prepared to withdraw toward their 1967 borders on the Golan Heights and in the Sinai. That was nothing new. But what of the all-important West Bank of the Jordan River, on which the Arabs (and Washington) want a home for the Palestinians? Israel's hard-lining Premier Menachem Begin not only continued to insist that Israel must keep the West Bank but went even further than that: he announced a tough additional condition against "foreign rule" there. By that he meant that Jerusalem would not even...