Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clotted with labor negotiations. Contracts covering some 4,000,000 workers in such basic industries as railroads, trucking, autos, construction, rubber and meat packing will expire in 1970. Unionists will press strongly for wage gains to keep ahead of inflation. Caught in a profit squeeze, management is likely to resist with equal vigor...
...final blow was in April at University Hall. Demonstrations against the war had been non-violent-mainly because the demonstrators were non-violent people. They were sitting there. inside this Harvard administration building, and then the police came in and clobbered them, and they did not resist, and the police carried them out bleeding...
...center, a pretty girl (California bred, obviously) stands behind a table. "Exercise your constitutional rights," she urges. How can I resist? "I'm with the people's lobby," she explains. "We fill up petitions on contract for different kinds of groups. In California you can get most kinds of laws passed by the people without going near the legislature. The Clean-Air Council and a group called Write for Your Life are behind this one, but there are other smog groups, one called The Right to Clean Air, another called Stamp Out Smog?S.O.S.?and one called People Pledged...
...more and more, as prices continue to rise. In major contracts negotiated through September, the median increase in wages and fringes has jumped to 8.1% as against 6.6% for last year; in the construction trades, it is 12.5%. These are the kinds of increases that Nixon hopes management will resist...
...Suddenly, Perrier itself is attacked. Mysterious buyers corner 10% of its shares. On the theory of "Cherchez Pétranger," suspicion immediately falls on Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch giant whose own bid for Sapiem has been rejected after the French government persuaded Sapiem to resist any foreign liaisons. Unilever emphatically denies raiding Perrier, and so do other potential foreign rivals, notably Switzerland's Nestlé and the U.S.'s KraftCo, which are also reputed to have eyes on France's dairy industry...