Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four months, a job he got as a reward for his efficient service in the White House (he was never brushed by Watergate), and was already struggling with the organizational problems that are partially to blame for the agency's lagging response to the need to exercise closer control over flight safety...
...changes of political fashion. But since a lot of the hyperbole focuses on just those aspects of Lippmann's writing that were most questionable, and that exemplified some of the major failings of the newspapers doing the praising, Lippmann's career and these journalists' account of it deserve a closer look...
...traditional government by consensus, combined with Miki's instinctive caution, means that there will probably be few changes of policy under the new Premier. Miki is known to be pro-American and a supporter of the Japanese-American Mutual Security Treaty. He is also a longtime advocate of closer ties between Peking and Tokyo, and played a major role last year in shifting Japan from a neutral to a pro-Arab stance in the Middle East. His major problem, of course, will be to curb Japan's inflation (at more than 20% annually, it is the worst...
...last time Baylor won the South-west Conference--50 long years ago--was closer to Custer's last stand than to 1974. Clearly the shock team of the Year of Upsets, the Bruins upended not only Daddy Darrell Royal's seven-year hegemony in the Cotton Bowl--some thought it should be renamed the Horny Bowl, after his Texas Longhorns--but gave superpower Oklahoma its only good game of the season...
During the past 2 summers I've made $2800 and $2900 respectively for about 10 weeks of work each summer. I was a closer and we roughly averaged 8 dollars a day more than the cutters and packers, and about 10-15 dollars a day less than the loaders. Our lettuce crew worked five days a week, roughly 40-45 hours a week (as most all others did, too) and only twice in the 20 weeks that I've closed have we had to work on a Saturday...