Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anger and shock gripped employees. Rather refused to help pick those who should be laid off, and an anonymous letter circulated through the building urging a walkout to protest the cutbacks -- and to show support for the news writers, who struck CBS and ABC last week. (NBC's employees belong to another union.) Negotiations for a new contract collapsed when the networks insisted on greater flexibility in firing workers and hiring more temporary employees; during the walkout, news scripts are being written by managers and producers on the broadcasts. Rather, Jennings and 85 other sympathetic employees signed a letter saying...
...College did not support the project because it would benefit only the small group of students who belong to the club instead of the entire student body, Epps said yesterday...
...belongs to the swelling ranks of the U.S. service economy? Such workers are often depicted as a legion of hamburger flippers and computer programmers, but in fact they constitute a huge, diverse group whose members range from cashiers to lumberjacks. The vast majority of the U.S. labor force, more than 76 million workers, belong to the service sector; 25 million others are in goods-producing jobs, and 3 million are in agriculture. The Labor Department defines the goods-producing sector as manufacturing, mining and construction, but the rapidly growing service-producing sector tends to be much broader, encompassing many...
David Whitty, executive director of Shelter,Inc., a program that helps homeless families andrecovering alcoholics, said Healy has implied thatthe homeless do not belong in Cambridge and thatthey fit the stereotype of the willfully dirty andobnoxious bum. "If he had said those things aboutany other group of people there would be outrageand calls for his resignation," Whitty said...
Cambridge's homeless people now compete for 85walk-in shelter beds. Of these, 50 belong to theCambridge and Somerville Program for AlcoholRehabilitation (CASPAR), which accepts onlyinebriated guests...