Word: charly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plant, Garrett says, a ton of garbage could produce about 480 Ibs. of oil (plus 160 Ibs. of char, 140 Ibs. of magnetic metals like iron and 120 Ibs. of glass), or about $6 of usable material for each $5.50 in operating costs. Independent experts are skeptical about these cost figures, but a garbage converter would be valuable even if it does not operate at a profit. San Diego County, which is weighing the pyrolysis experiment, presently produces 3,500 tons of garbage per day, spends $12 per ton to collect and haul it to the dump, and like most...
Last week, responding to complaints from employees, the U.S. State Department ordered its executives to stop treating secretaries as "char help," to show a little more diplomacy toward them and to encourage independent secretarial decision making. Officials warned especially against the "reliable-old-shoe syndrome," in which secretaries are assumed to be content with the same duties throughout their career while almost everyone else moves...
...Fosse's direction is as chaotic as it was in his previous Sweet Char ity, a desperate scramble after a style...
...matter how well-formed and active it appears. This paradox has already caused acute emotional problems-anxiety, insomnia and depression-among nurses in Hawaii, which a year ago became the first state to legalize abortion on request. At a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Psychiatrists Walter Char and John McDermott of the University of Hawaii School of Medicine reported that nurses in Honolulu hospitals suffered "acute identity crises" or doubts about their roles in aiding abortions...
Called in to give some psychiatric first aid, Char and McDermott found that unrestricted abortions were not only troubling the nurses' consciences but also bringing to the surface all of "their deep, unresolved personal conflicts regarding birth, death, sex and aggression." Setting up a number of group meetings, the two psychiatrists encouraged the nurses to talk freely about their pent-up thoughts. It soon became evident to most that their turbulent feelings and reactions were widely shared, normal and perfectly understandable to the psychiatrists...