Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...industry overreached itself by demanding authority to change plant work rules, succeeded only in uniting the rank and file behind Dave McDonald and his war cry that the bosses were out to "bust the union." When President Eisenhower's Taft-Hartley board met in October, after the strike had dragged on for three months, the fact finders discovered that the steel industry spokesmen, headed by Chief Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper, were unable to present a convincing case on the work-rules issue. "It's very distressing at this stage," said Chairman George William Taylor, "that we are still...
...damage U.S. industry's capacity to meet foreign competition remains to be seen. The longer-term answers depend largely on whether steel-industry productivity increases at a faster rate than the 2.7%-a-year average of the past decade-and specifically, whether the union representatives on the new work-rules committee prove willing to make some concessions...
They had used considerable muscle to get their bandwagon rolling, and if it should falter, this could conceivably work against them. But nobody could deny that, for the moment at least, it had rolled farther toward Los Angeles than any other on the road...
...Each House is a natural forum for religious discussion," declared Rev. James Blanning. To relieve the Masters of an added burden, the students themselves might arrange invitations to speakers and seminar schedules, he said. "We want to work more closely within the University's framework without trying to ram anything down anybody's throat," Blanning stated...
...tremendously interested in my husband's work with the Lincoln Center, although I don't have anything officially to do with it. At moments I'm wistful about the fact that I'm not a member of any literary circle, but then I think that in leading a perfectly normal life I probably get a perspective that I probably wouldn't get otherwise." Whereupon, we took leave of the most dangerous woman in America today...