Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That crossing was successfully made last Thursday afternoon. With the Senate galleries packed with spectators and all 100 Senators in their seats, the clerk began calling out the names. In just ten minutes of voting, the first of the two treaties was narrowly approved, 68 to 32-one more vote than the required two-thirds. The treaty gives the U.S. the right to defend the canal's neutrality after it is ceded to Panama by the year 2000. The second treaty, to be voted on next month, provides for the actual transfer of authority-and may provide another jarring...
...Persecuted Criminal. A Department of Housing and Urban Development field office got 25 names through the Civil Service roster to fill several temporary clerk-typist positions for a year. The office superintendent, a white man, selected seven people (four women and three men) from nine applicants, all of whom were black. One of the rejected applicants, Mr. P., on probation for assault, complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Office that he had been the victim of race and sex discrimination. The superintendent admitted that he had rejected F. because of his criminal record. F. was given one year...
...Dodging at IRS. The IRS dismissed two employees, Margaret Boyce and Minnie Dixon, for neglecting to pay their own taxes on time. Boyce, a G52 data transcriber, and Dixon, a G53 file clerk, contended that they relied on their husbands to file the returns and won their appeal to the regional Civil Service Commission and the Appeals Review Board. But the IRS, arguing that it was a bad precedent for IRS workers not to send in their own returns, persuaded the full commission to uphold the workers' ouster. The women won reinstatement with back pay in the U.S. Court...
...computer-equipped check-out line, all the clerk has to do is pass each item over a Cyclopean eye linked to a cash register and a scale. In a twinkling, the eye "reads" the striped UPC (Universal Product Code) symbol, by which the computer system identifies the product, brand name and other pertinent information about the item. (The store manager can program into the computer price changes for specials or daily fluctuations.) Then the computer prints out both the name of the item (say, one 4-oz. can of sliced French beans) and the price on the receipt list...
...item is not code-marked, or if the clerk mistakenly positions it so that the marking is on the upper surface (and thus invisible to the scanning eye), the computer signals that it has not charged for that merchandise; it will then be added manually to the bill by the check-out clerk. In handling produce that must be weighed, the computer reads the code on the plastic bag containing, say, a half-dozen Delicious apples, but delays ringing up the charge until the bag has been placed on the computer-connected check-out scale. Then, programmed with the price...