Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employee. He may get paid 17 hours per week (the maximum allowed for casual employees on the University payroll), but he usually works 20-25 (which decreases his real hourly pay to the $4.75 to $6.00 range). In fact, each applicant for the job was asked whether he/she would be willing to work extra, unpaid hours for the Council. Also, the skills for this job are not found in all students--filing skills, typing skills, office maintenance, and the ability to work unsupervised...
Jennings, a top TV technician, is the compleat Yuppie ("clever, ironic, knowing, casual"), who views life as a videotape that needs editing; his boss, Talk-Show Host Billy Bell, sees it as a sequel to success. Bell has a few upscale plans of his own, among them bedding Kelly and beginning a political career. Only one problem nags: he does not know what politicians actually do. "They announced and attacked," writes Stevens. "He knew he would excel at that. But the rest...
...friends tell stories of some remarkably decent gesture. Yet she is also capable of casual rudeness. Hamill describes her as "nicer these days. But for a while she abused weak targets. She had 19 secretaries come and go." She still likes to feed herself out of serving bowls, using serving utensils, apparently without a thought for the hygiene of the other people in the room. For all her years of searching, she does not present a consistent image of herself: she insists that she is shy, lazy and "made for a mountaintop," but explains her frenzied schedule by saying...
...STORY IS however a familiar one. A few years back Soviet authorities were alarmed to find that the Russians caviar trade was about to collapse because the special breed of fish required was slowly doing out. With a casual request to Washington, the U.S.S.R. received free of charge, a generous supply of a nearly identical species of American fish under an earlier research sharing agreement. The consequence was American fish eggs in Russian containers at exorbitant prices...
Although prices are inching down, they will still discourage casual lovers of electronic toys. The cost of phones ranges from about $2,000 to $4,400. The phones themselves, similar in size to a standard cordless handset, are just the beginning. There is usually also a onetime $50 charge to buy a number, a $35 monthly service fee and a charge of 400 per minute for prime business-hour calls. But users do not mind. Says Washington Real Estate Broker Dee Carl: "In my business, I can pay for a cellular phone in one deal...