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...overtime agreement stipulated that a list of all overtime openings be posted and that records of who has worked overtime be available to all guards. These steps are designed to alter the current situation where just a few guards get to work overtime, Travers said...
...little more than a memory. Onetime killers like measles and chicken pox have been downgraded into childhood diseases capable of producing lasting immunities in their survivors. Inoculation and modern sanitation have all but eliminated smallpox. Cholera remains endemic only on the Indian subcontinent. But, McNeill concludes, "knowledge and organization alter but cannot cancel humanity's vulnerability to invasion by parasitic forms of life." Microbes have already shown that they are more flexible than man, and can move easily from animal hosts into humans. The swine flu virus seems to be making the jump today. No one can guess which...
...days we felt as though we had known one another for years. The opportunity to meet and spend hours talking to the man who had written a play presented by Black CAST in the Loeb last year was extremely special. As the protagonist Gabe Gabriel, Mr. Gordone's alter-ago, I felt as though I had already known him--but the reality of spending time with him afforded more insight into the character than I had ever known before...
...Berlinguer to find a tolerable compromise. He stressed that the P.C.I, had to prove that it could act responsibly. He added, however, that his tacit support of the government would continue only as long as the stangata 's sacrifices were accompanied by basic economic reforms that would significantly alter Italian society. Said he: "There cannot be an austerity policy to return to things as they were." To no one's surprise, the central committee formally endorsed the Berlinguer line and, in accordance with the Leninist dictum of "democratic centralism," formally closed ranks. It also ordered up the current...
...training camp a year ago. Mitts, a starter for most of the season on the previous fall's freshman team, found that he was being overlooked. He did not move up the depth charts, and after impressive, at least according to him, performances in the preseason scrimmages failed to alter his status on the team, he saw the writing on the wall...