Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...curriculum, like that of most human growth centers, is wide. The fall 1970 catalogue offers a smorgasbord of workshops, labs and seminars, among them group sessions for millionaires ("On Being Rich"), couples, divorcees and dentists ("The manner in which the professional approaches his patients and practice is, in general, a reflection of the way he approaches life...
Michigan's Attorney General Frank Kelley thinks that the new laws might be unconstitutional because they hold a parent criminally liable even though he may have no knowledge of his child's offenses. Nevertheless, at least two other Michigan towns are considering similar measures, and Madison Heights Mayor Monte Geralds has already received hundreds of requests for copies of his law from towns all over the country...
...this week, the Students for a Democratic Society planned a march on General Motors' Detroit headquarters in clenched-fist support of the auto workers, who are now in the eighth week of a bitter strike against G.M. Reviving the faded dream of a Socialist alliance with labor, the S.D.S. hoped to draw 10,000 students and strikers to the demonstration. Considering the way that workers generally feel about the longhairs and left-wingers, however, the students seemed to be more in danger of violence than the company...
...General Motors, which last week reported its alltime high loss of $77 million in the third quarter and could lose up to $1 billion in this quarter, sees its role in the strike as a Horatio at the bridge, holding fast against the onslaught of inflationary demands. The company has offered the men "58 and out," or retirement on a $500-a-month pension at age 58. G.M. argues that it cannot afford to lose too many of its most experienced hands. Fully 42,000 workers have 25 years or more of service. The public interest and the needs...
...signal an impasse so acute that the workers would probably stay out until February. But last week the company and the union went into what they called "intensive" bargaining and announced a news blackout?a traditional hint that rapid progress is being made. Any settlement is bound to exceed General Motors' final pre-strike offer of a 9.8% increase for the first year of a three-year contract, and will be inflationary. It will also set a target for other unions to match or exceed. Next year the steel industry will open wage talks, and a strike is widely expected...