Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 25 people, members of a new student organization called the Committee for Worker-Student Unity, picketed for an hour yesterday in Holyoke Center in support of a dining hall worker who is trying to have two warnings cleared from his record...
...students, holding signs and chanting slogans, marched in the Holyoke arcade in front of the University Information Office. They held the demonstration because they thought a hearing on the worker's case was going on in the Personnel Office, on Holyoke Center's sixth floor...
...Wife Nancy sitting demurely to his left, Reagan rapidly and unemotionally read a four-minute statement that damned the "buddy system [that includes] the Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business and big labor [and] functions for its own benefit−increasingly insensitive to the needs of the American worker who supports it with his taxes." It took no vast leap of imagination to deduce that Ford, a veteran of 27 years in Washington, was one of the leading "buddies." Afterward, Reagan refused to be pinned down on specific issues, such as the right size for the U.S. defense budget...
Riccardo's ultimatum has now presented Wilson with what one government official calls "an agonizing dilemma." A Chrysler pullout would wipe out not only 25,000 jobs in the company's own plants but perhaps 60,000 more in related industries. Workers are threatening to take over the plants if Chrysler goes home. A shutdown of the 7,000-worker factory in Lin wood, Scotland, might fan the flames of Scottish nationalism. And the Shah of Iran has ordered 126,000 Hunters in kit form; Wilson is not eager to anger one of Britain's principal suppliers...
...disappeared into the shadows of history. He died in obscurity in Tel Aviv in 1951. Golda, changing her name to the Hebrew Meir ("Illuminate") at David Ben-Gurion's order, developed into "a public person and not a homebody." As the world knows, the former kibbutznik became political worker and global fund raiser for the Palestinian Jews. After Israel's independence in 1948, she progressed still higher: Ambassador to Moscow, Labor Minister, Foreign Minister, finally, Prime Minister for five years, a role which made her one of the world's most notable women...