Word: maneuverable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much depends on the skill of Mediator Healy, 62, who has been settling labor disputes, especially in the railroad and maritime industries, since 1945. "He is one of the two or three best in the country for this kind of work," says Horvitz. Under the unusual bargaining agreement, Healy has...
During the course of the faculty debate, many professores complained that their fields had not been included in the Core; likewise, student groups objected to the plan's failure to include any provision allowing advanced students to by-pass the introductory-level courses of which the Core will most likely...
What particularly baffled and annoyed Congressmen was the timing of the White House bill. The last-minute maneuver looked as if the President were trying simply to save face-and not succeeding. The White House prevailed upon two liberal Congressmen, Joseph Fisher of Virginia and James Gorman of California, to...
In contrast with these high-flying Soviet space efforts, NASA is still struggling to save the unoccupied Skylab space station from plunging prematurely to earth. Late last year, Skylab began to show a dangerous loss of altitude, a byproduct of atmospheric effects caused by unexpectedly strong sunspot activity during the...
The real question in the dispute is whether either of the two major tests has much practical value. Besides the steering-wheel test, there was also the avoidance-maneuver test, in which the cars were driven between markers to see how quickly they could swerve to dodge an obstacle without...