Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charismatic Dayan, who is somewhat more popular with the electorate at large than he is with other leaders of the Labor Party, had threatened, in effect, to sulk in his tent through the election if the plan was not adopted. If Dayan were to defect from Labor or even withdraw from the campaign in silence, the party would stand to lose eight to ten seats and might even be toppled from power...
Last Spring Harvard backed two shareholder resolutions to have companies withdraw from Namibia, a southern African territory which South Africa rules in defiance of the United Nations and other opponents of apartheid...
...Minister of Ulster Lord Brookeborough-as a "stocktaking" trip, to find out why Ulster has not made more progress in figuring out a way to govern itself. In reality, it was probably closer to tail-kicking. The Prime Minister has carefully avoided making any threats that the British might withdraw their military forces from Ulster. Nonetheless, several planned leaks in the press have indicated that that could be a possibility. Conferring separately with spokesmen for all major parties represented in the new Provincial Assembly, the Prime Minister repeatedly made the point: Why, more than two months after the election, have...
...retail merchants continued. Announcing the Cabinet switches, Allende charged that the month-long strike by truckers protesting the threat of nationalization had already cost the country more than $100 million and had put 90,000 construction workers out of jobs. For openers in his new role, Briones threatened to withdraw armed protection from the truck owners and give it instead to leftist strikebreakers, but the stalemate was unresolved. (In Allende's Chile, paradoxically, most strikes have been staged not by labor groups but by conservative small-businessmen and professionals against the radical left...
Prices Rise. Whether as a result of a conspiracy or through the natural workings of the marketplace, as oilmen contend, prices did in fact go up rapidly. In July 1971, the nation's largest oil firms, followed by big independent refiners, began to withdraw temporary competitive allowances (TCAs) from service stations they supply. TCAs are discounts on wholesale gas that enable a dealer to hold prices down at the pump, usually during a price war; removing them causes prices to shoot up. As TCAs came off, the national average price of regular gas rose from less than...