Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union lost no time filing an appeal. Indeed organized labor has taken the lead in defending contractual seniority. Says Lawyer Michael Gottesman, who argued for the union in the Watkins case last week: "Because older workers fare so badly in seeking other employment, it is not surprising that they cling desperately to the employment they have." Columbia Law Professor Harriet Rabb focuses on an opposing concern. "The victims of recession are those excluded in the first place," she says. "Affirmativeaction programs have upset the traditional rules of hiring. They can upset the rules for layoffs as well...
...foreign-educated elite in Caracas, accustomed to air-conditioned Mercedes, plush skyscraper offices and country-club amenities. The other Venezuela includes more than 800,000 mi grants who have left the country's poor rural areas to make their homes in the tar-paper shacks that cling to the hills around the capital...
...unequal. This may be partly because parents with time, money and the respect of their fellows can do a better job raising their children than parents who lack these things. But children raised in different circumstances will also require different hopes, expectations, and compulsions...So long as we cling to the family system, efforts to increase the rate of social mobility are likely to have limited impact. Not only that, but their social value is also problematic...If wealth and power remain as unequally distributed between families as they now are, and if child-rearing remains family based, increasing...
...Harvard A-team managed to cling within striking range of the Tigers until the contest's last ten minutes. Down 8-0 early in the second half, it capitalized on a try by wing forward Tommy Vann to narrow the margin to 8-4. Dave Wagner followed quickly with a conversion, making...
...August. And there are 80 guys, clawing, groping vainly for some coach to nod their way. They show that aimless hustle--the hustle of an athlete who's wearing the yellow, green or most likely shredded red jersey, emblematic of those fifth or sixth strings to which they must cling...