Word: featherbedding
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Hoping to avoid any antilabor tag, Nixon and Secretary Mitchell (who urged the committee, boosted Nixon for chairman) are planning to look into all cost-push factors, not just rising wages. Example: in the featherbed-ridden construction industry, a sure target for investigation, the committee will delve into such nonwage...
In Siles, the U.S. is backing a battler. To keep his program from being junked or sidetracked. Siles has gone on a hunger strike, threatened to resign, taken to the road to talk down an impending general strike. Much of his trouble has been spawned by left-wing elements in...
At last the dictator saw that his haywire economic development lacked those prime essentials of productivity-labor efficiency and capital investment. He appealed to the C.G.T., but the unions had made their featherbed and were happy to lie in it. Seeking investment, he signed a contract for Standard Oil of...
Late in the morning the stocky man stirs in the old-fashioned featherbed, and demands his café au lait. He dumps in three lumps of sugar, shrugs into an old bathrobe, then sprawls on the bed again as he scans the morning papers. Soon he is dictating orders, directives...
But the big difference between the two chutes is the new way of packing, which eliminates most of the opening jolt. Several paratroopers who have jumped with the new chute claim they actually had to look up to see whether or not it had opened. Reported one happily: "It'...