Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Norway's Hilmar Reksten, 77. The tanker business seems always to swing from boom times of frantic demand and soaring charter rates to busts during which expensive tankers lie idle and unwanted. Reksten, a ramrod-straight six-footer and lone-wolf operator, started out as a shipping clerk; in 1929 he bought a freighter cheap, parlayed it into a modest fleet (thanks in part to two rich wives), then seized on slumps to buy up tonnage cut-rate. By 1973 he had amassed a flotilla worth, by some estimates, $600 million. Now, one of the worst depressions ever...
...most sensational charge was that the CIA had secretly planted its agents not only in the Treasury, Commerce and many other departments but also in Richard Nixon's White House. What was more, the alleged top agent was no file clerk or chauffeur but Alexander Butterfield, the former presidential deputy assistant who did as much as anyone to break open the Watergate scandal. It was Butterfield who supervised Nixon's notorious taping system. When an aide to the Senate Watergate committee casually asked Butterfield in July 1973 if conversations had been taped in the White House, Butterfield forthrightly...
...become so lonely for Vietnamese company that they have sought to return to the camps. Others, especially those who enjoyed upper-class status in Viet Nam, have been unwilling to take menial jobs. A senior official of a volunteer agency reports that several refugees refused a position as night clerk in a hotel in Buffalo, partly because of the job's nature and partly because of the city's frigid winters. Says the official: "Not all of these people realize that, like other refugee groups in our history, they must start at the bottom, then move around later...
...next 20 years, Doctorow fought the blank page-and won four times. Between novels he was a reservations clerk for American Airlines, a reader for CBS, Ian Fleming's editor at New American Library, Norman Mailer's editor at Dial Press, and most recently a teacher at Sarah Lawrence College...
...also to win valuable allies against congressional critics, the Postal Service in 1973 gave the seven postal unions an overly generous settlement: an increase that amounted to 23% in wages and benefits over two years. Postal employees now earn considerably more than comparable Government workers; a beginning postal clerk, for example, makes $10,898, while a Government clerk in a roughly similar area starts at $8,500. Most remarkably, if postal workers were paid at the same rate as Government employees, there would be no postal deficit at all this year. Moreover, postal employees have also written into their...