Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Princeton boasts two good hitters -- second baseman Doug James has a .381 average through the team's first seven games while left fielder and cleanup hitter Lynn Moore has .348 credentials...
Brought to Heel. In the end, that included the unions. The government ordered stiff new work rules for Argentine port workers, whose strikes and "holidays" idled the docks for more than 150 days last year. A few weeks ago, the government began a similar cleanup of Argentina's government-owned railroads, which are losing $1,000,000 a day. When labor leaders decided that enough was enough and called for strikes and protest demonstrations, Onganía's government barred street rallies by the unions, broke off all dialogue with the confederation and ordered state-owned broadcasting stations...
...respectively when they joined) and the kind of background that would prove most useful in community development. Between them they were able to teach first aid, child care, swimming, carpentry and auto mechanics at the Casa del Obrero of Manta; in their spare time they managed to organize neighborhood cleanup campaigns, fight bubonic plague and build an oven for the local school's hot lunch program...
...Latins are not lazy people.... [They] have learned to live with the underdevelopment of their countries...." The answer, he felt, was "motivation," but he did not push this very far. The crucial question for students of development is what determines readiness to be motivated. Why did the community garbage cleanup work in Barrio Miraflores and fail in another barrio in the center of town? And why did the Brooks complete projects when other Volunteers could not? One answer may lie in the person of the director of the Casa del Obrero, a dynamic and dedicated man. Without at least...
...Antonio takes its cleanup effort seriously, carries a volunteer program sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and run on an annual budget of just $6,000. The chamber, of course, has no police power, but it prodded property owners to tidy up unsightly lots, encouraged Boys' Clubs members to move in on cluttered areas with flour sacks for trash, and ran a regular school program on beautification with films and 15-minute lectures. San Antonio Mayor Walter W. McAllister called his city's recognition "very gratifying but no real surprise." Indeed not. In the 19 years that...