Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because they are right. Dead right. This strike isn't about demands for outlandish salaries or featherbedded work rules. The miners on the pickets of Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky are struggling over the basic dignities that American workers can reasonably expect--the right to bargain collectively in good faith, the right to a contract and the right to health benefits for retirees, disabled workers and surviving spouses...
...Stone has three alternatives. First, he should persuade the other Pittston directors to return to the table and negotiate a new contract with the UMWA in good faith. If he is unable to do so, he should resign from the board in protest. His continued presence there would only demonstrate complicity with Pittston's union busting. If Stone is unwilling to resign from Pittston, he does not belong on the Harvard Corporation and should resign...
Bakker, who will appeal, managed a trademark smile as he told reporters after the trial, "I come out today still innocent of the charges against me . . . My faith is still in God." Wife Tammy Faye tried to put the best face on the situation by singing a hymn and cooing, "It's not over till it's over...
...offer 10 things for the council to do in its first semester, proposals aimed at restoring students' faith in their own representative body...
THESE suggestions are largely structural. But structural changes can have a substantial effect on the debate of a body that has not yet decided exactly what it wants to do. Once the council has regained the faith of students through internal reform, it can begin to act instead of just reacting, taking on the issues--political or otherwise--that are most important to the student body. Maybe then the council can take itself a little more seriously and earn back the confidence of the student body it purports to represent...