Word: stalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard officials, however, have called the union's bargaining positions "outrageous" and have refused to consider the four-and-two proposal. Harvard's stall tactics should come as no surprise; the University has a long history of failing to negotiate promptly or in good faith with its employees. In addition to stonewalling, Harvard negotiator Edward Powers has threatened to withdraw retroactive wage increases that are often granted employees working under an interim contract after a new contract is approved. The University seems determined to force the union to give into its demands...
...package. The measure provides $70 million in military help and $30 million in "humanitarian" aid for the contras, plus $300 million in assistance to Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala. It now faces a House-Senate conference committee, where Speaker Tip O'Neill may again attempt to stall it. But even Democratic opponents expect it to pass before November's midterm elections...
...been a tough two weeks for William Rehnquist. Questions about his views on race and his role in the preWatergate Justice Department had briefly threatened to stall his nomination as Chief Justice of the U.S. The White House made matters worse by invoking Executive privilege to withhold his memorandums advising on ways to handle the civil disturbances and other legal matters of the early 1970s...
...means a slow plane -- the average speed on last week's run was only 103 m.p.h. -- so Burt Rutan included a canard, the extra wing at the front of the fuselage that is his trademark. Reason: If a plane flies too slowly, its wings lose lift, causing it to stall and perhaps crash. But the canard is tilted more steeply than the main wing, so it loses lift first. When that happens, the nose drops, and the resulting minidive immediately speeds the plane up, thus providing extra lift. For increased strength, both canard and main wing are attached...
...wonders of the East! The household goddesses that gaze down from every other wall and stall in Chiang Mai and Mandalay are the very picture of mysterious beauty. Their girlish tresses are dark and lustrous, their complexions delicately olive, their looks a spicy blend of innocence and experience. And the names of these exotic sirens are . . . Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Beals. From the go-slow huts of socialist Burma to the go-go bars of socializing Bangkok, the hands-down pinups of Southeast Asia are the Yale flashdancer with exactly two movies to her credit and the pouting young starlet...