Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nationalism across a continent so large that the U.S., India, Pakistan and China together could fit within its boundaries. How it all turns out will depend largely on the new crop of young leaders rising to prominence in the peaceful revolution's wake. They are a mixed lot: clerks, teachers, village firebrands, and bush politicians with considerable native talent but little background or experience for the task of nation-building. Yet they walk onto the world stage with uncommon self-assurance. A Patrice Lumumba, onetime postal clerk and jailbird in the Congo, debates Congolese independence on even terms with...
...addition of hypocrisy. The son of a Russian-Polish immigrant who gave up a profitable fur trade in the U.S. Midwest to try his luck in the South African diamond rush, husky young Roland Welensky left school at 14 and wandered all over Africa, taking jobs as clerk, butcher and baker, then settled in his native Rhodesia. His success as a union organizer led on to politics...
...growing decentralization of U.S. business, he argues, has left too many top executives concerned only with profit-and-loss figures to the detriment of employee relations. Jaspan acknowledges that many thefts are hard to eliminate because of employees' money difficulties or personality problems (e.g., the unattractive sales clerk who stole for a trip to Bermuda to find romance). But he also points to the need for management to pay higher wages in some cases, make sure that an employee gets recognition of some sort for faithful service. Jaspan cites the case of an employee in a Southern hardware store...
...year will amount to over $5 billion, says Jaspan. This failure by management to police its own house, he argues, has helped change the white collar workers' attitude toward stealing from the boss, especially when the boss is not above thieving. Jaspan cites the case of a young clerk who, after several sleepless nights, finally approached his boss, a credit manager, to blurt out a confession of petty stealing. The clerk was told to forget all about it. "You see," explained the manager, "this department just can't afford a scandal. I've been embezzling for years...
...sweated out her rivals' times, wincing, covering her eyes, wringing her hands and staving off newsmen: "I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to talk to anyone!" For the runs of six other girls, Penny's time stood. Then a clerk in a West German ski factory began...