Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...greatest breakthrough in pension board representation has come in a company that desperately needs the cooperation of its union. In return for permission to defer its pension-fund contribution, Chrysler consented to a union demand for a joint advisory board on pensions. Three representatives from Chrysler and three from the United Auto Workers will oversee the investment of 10 per cent of each year's net increase in pension money for "socially desirable" ends. In addition, the union can veto investments in up to five companies every year as a result of ties to South Africa...
...there was little reason for hope that this would happen soon, for the Easter weekend marked the end of an extraordinary round of diplomacy in the search for a solution to the hostage crisis. Both U.S. and Iranian officials had thought they were within sight of a breakthroughthe transfer of custody of the hostages from the militants to the ruling Revolutionary Council, a move seen as the first step toward their eventual release. Then the negotiations collapsed, leaving the governments as far apart as ever...
...once there was a breakthrough in that central area, and a breakthrough in the gray room, then everything was called into question. After sex was made conscious, what about money? What about capital exploitation? What about plastic? What about tearing up the earth and replacing it with asphalt? What about the murder of one hundred million buffalo...
Matched against a similarly inspired batch of upstarts, the Americans whittled away at the Finns with an aggressive forechecking game and steady attack. The breakthrough did not come easy, but it came in time, and that's all that mattered...
Assistants read the day's assignments and other possible stories: there may be a breakthrough in the Iranian stalemate, there is trouble in Turkey and Lebanon, and Richard Nixon is arriving in Manhattan. Most of the stories have already been scheduled or discussed, and the reading goes swiftly, with only an occasional comment from Senior Producer Richard Kaplan or from his boss, Executive Producer Jeff Gralnick, who is calling in from Washington today. "We want to get into Turkey and Beirut," says Gralnick, "and we want to do it soon." Kaplan replies...