Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rank-and-file. The union will gain access to financial and other information previously held in confidence by Chrysler's board decisions through his arguments, if not through his vote. For example, he can make the company at least consider preserving jobs when its knee-jerk reaction to financial difficulty might be massive layoffs. More immediately, he may be able to get Chrysler to re-consider the planned closing of its Michigan Assembly plant...
...crowd's reaction to the next 26 beatings, which lasted for 31/2 hours, varied. When convicts cried out under the lashes, onlookers occasionally tried to crash through police barriers to get a better look. When a prisoner managed to walk away unaided after his flogging, the people cheered. Midway through the proceedings, officials sidelined one of the whippers, whose strokes were not thought to be hard enough...
...lockout was the only way to ensure the future of the two publications. If the papers do survive, said Lord Thomson of Fleet, chairman of the parent company, "the cost staff-wise, money-wise and frustration-wise will have been worth it." As for Fleet Street's reaction, Times executives dismissed it as sniping by envious competitors. Said one Timesman: "They're in a position of being overmanned and using 19th century technology, and they see a slimmed-down Times striding into the 21st century...
Despite its minor problems, though, the CCA appears to be the most cohesive, professionally run and effective of the city's political teams. Perhaps the best measure of the respect it engenders around the league is the nasty reaction it provokes from other politicos, who tend to snarl about machines and elitists when the CCA is mentioned...
...seemed (though its leaders deny the charge) to have more links with conservative than liberal leaders. If the CCC slate won, rent control would likely die, and the majority of the group's officers are definitely condominium owners. Duehay and Wylie were perhaps equally surprised at the nasty reaction of many of their own supporters. The Rent Control Task Force reportedly scheduled a meeting to consider unendorsing the pair, who quickly demanded instead that the CCC remove its blessing. It did, and now representing an overwhelmingly conservative bias, the CCC marches on, dead set on finding middle ground in this...