Recession presses 1981 budget to red line
Congress, four weeks late, approves a 613.6 billion 1981 balanced budget amid a deepening recession. The plan boosts defense by 18 billion, cuts domestic programs, and raises emergency spending authority as House and Senate move to finalize amid partisan tension.
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Robert Parry Washington
Congress
Defense
Carter
House
Senate
Robert N. Giaimo
D-Conn
House Budget Committee
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
Unem
O’neill
Robert Bauman
Jim Wright
Texas
Ernest F. Hollings
D-S.c
Senate Budget Committee
Hollings
Why It Won't Work List From Dallas Company
A Dallas insurance firm posts a humorous 60 item list of excuses to reject ideas in its Southland Life Insurance Co headquarters elevators. The cards range from You're two years ahead of your time to Not that again, reflecting corporate reluctance to change and common objections among staff.
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Dallas
Southland Life Insurance Co
June Rogan
Southland Communications
Joe Josephson
Ivory Tower
Guardian Appointed for Novelist Taylor Caldwell
The Buffalo Courier Express reports Mary Fried obtained a court order appointing a guardian for her mother, novelist Taylor Caldwell, after a stroke on May 5. The order bars her fourth husband, Robert Prestie, from moving Caldwell from the area and requires Prestie to appear in court to address the matter.
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Buffalo
UPI
Taylor Caldwell
Buffalo Courier Express
Mary Fried
Guardian
Robert Prestie
Princess Caroline and Junot Face Separation Rumor
London gossip columnist Nigel Dempster reports Princess Caroline of Monaco and Philippe Junot may separate after two years of marriage. Monaco palace denies the rumor as speculation. Dempster cites Junot's financial issues and rumored multiple liaisons as factors in the rift.
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London
Caroline of
Monaco
Philippe Junot
London Daily Mail
Nigel Dempster
Janot
New York
Dempster
Regine
Manhattan
Monte Carlo
Caroline
Prince Rainier
Princess Grace
Hubert Michard Pellisier
Junot
Los Angeles tests flexible 4 day or 9 day workweek
Los Angeles launches a two year pilot putting about 37,000 municipal employees on a 4 day 40 hour or a 9 day 80 hour schedule every two weeks to cut pollution and save energy. Elected officials and certain staff are exempt. exemptions may be requested by departments preferring the standard 40 hour workweek. The council will monitor the program every six months with potential permanent adoption or modification after two years.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Board of Public Works
Indiviual
Arthur Snyder
Snyder
Personnel and Labor Relations Committee
Washington
Court Upholds Ruling Against JP Stevens Co
A federal appeals court in Richmond upheld the NLRB finding that JP Stevens Co. violated labor laws at seven Roanoke Rapids plants and other Southern sites. The court cited the companys hostility to the union as part of the upheld unfair labor practice ruling. The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers union had filed the complaint after two years of failed contract talks.
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Richmond, Va
National Labor Relations Board
J.P. Stevens Co
4Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
NLRB
Roanoke Rapids
N.C
J.P. Steven
South
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
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Ichmark
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