Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Although some smaller local unions have voted to return to work, postal unions in the big cities are ignoring President Nixon's statements...
Nixon has said that there will be no negotiations until the strikers return to work and that he will "see to it that the mails go through." Nixon has not said whether he will order troops to aid the stricken postal service...
...Federal court injunctions have been issued in most cities to stop the strike, but local unions have been ignoring both the injunctions and the pleas of the postal union's national leadership to return to work...
Seeking to lure even more visitors, some of Pitanguy's competitors have begun to branch out. They now offer restorative surgery for women who for reasons of their own wish to return to their virginal state. Pitanguy will not even consider such tampering. "That," he says contemptuously, "involves another ethical pattern...
...complex society, the goals of individuals often conflict with those of larger groups, making one man's efficiency another man's inefficiency. To take a simple example, the man who drinks soda or beer likes the "one-way bottle." He can drink up and toss it away, rather than return it for a refund. But that little everyday luxury builds up a mountain of hard-to-dispose-of garbage. To the shopkeeper, efficiency means getting merchandise delivered at the start of every business day. Result: trucks flood the streets, producing traffic jams that are staggeringly inefficient for the city...