Word: wrings
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...symbol away from the celebration, it's almost a sterile, noncelebrative event," says Lynn Buzzard, executive director of the Christian Legal Society, adding that court attacks on Christmas scenes are "a trivialization of the Constitution." Henry Kinch, the current mayor of Pawtucket, agrees. "The A.C.L.U. wants to wring every bit of religion out of our daily life," he says. He will appeal the anti-crèche decision to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Audiences, who are far more tolerant in front of a tube than a theater screen, may wring a reasonable amount of fun from Bring 'Em Back Alive (CBS, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.S.T.), which appropriates the dashing slogan, cut-to-measure mythos and even the name of the 1930s animal hunter Frank Buck. Mounted like an old Republic serial, the slap-happy adventure show boasts a congenial leading man in Bruce Boxleitner. He is required to trap all manner of jungle animals without doing them physical harm and, not incidentally, battle Nazis, Asian warlords and assorted jetsam that floats past...
Throughout the country, teacher unions are fighting just to keep what they still have in the face of declining enrollments, diminishing tax bases and federal education cutbacks. For their part, school districts everywhere are trying to wring concessions out of teacher unions in the form of pay freezes, benefit reductions and even salary cuts. But with both sides hurting economically, there is little ground for negotiation. In Cleveland, 4,000 teachers who struck for eleven weeks at the start of the 1979-80 school year are now at work without a new contract and have made no strike threats...
Many relatively small unions managed to wring average first-year wage increases of 7% or more from their employers. But the two biggest unions in the study were far more accommodating. Both the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Ford Motor Co. members of the United Auto Workers agreed to forgo any wage increases in order to help hold down costs and prevent further layoffs in their recession-squeezed industries. With 335 major wage contracts covering 1.4 million unionized workers coming up for negotiation in the current quarter, a continuation of the wage restraint would be the best evidence that...
Vellucci's speech seems to signal the other Independent councilors that he is unlikely to vote for them, and could lead them to try to wring concessions from Vellucci in exchange for the mayoralty...