Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After eight years of Ronald Reagan, the labor movement was supposed to be dead. Unions were supposed to be on the run, management was supposed to be in control and strikes were to be a quaint historical oddity...
...Wellsburg had a change of heart last May, when Bayer, the pharmaceutical company, launched a $4 million, two-year experiment aimed at improving the townspeople's coronary fitness by teaching them the rudiments of healthy living. The basic rules: throw away the cigarettes, control blood pressure and, perhaps most important, bring down blood-cholesterol levels through diet and exercise programs. Among the first results late this summer: an average 8.3% decline in cholesterol levels...
...undereducated residents of public housing to assume responsibility for their dwellings has been hard, but not nearly so difficult as convincing politicians that it can be done. Gray, chairwoman of the Kenilworth-Parkside Resident Management Corp. in Washington, has been leading this fight since 1972. The decision to take control of the project was forced on Gray and her neighbors, she says. Plumbing was broken and heating was, at best, intermittent. So in 1981, deciding "things couldn't get much worse and we had to do something," Gray petitioned the District government to let residents take control. The mayor eventually...
...care center, but only if they are working or looking for work. Residents are expected to take care of their property, which means fixing broken toilets and sinks themselves. One member of each family must take six weeks of training in such subjects as personal budgeting, pest control and basic home repairs. A system of fines is imposed on residents who break the rules. "Being poor doesn't give you the right to be dirty or lazy," she says. Though the bylaws seem downright harsh, in six years only five families have been evicted for breaking them...
...children again, children are intent on becoming grownups. In addition to the play pots and pans and stoves that cook, there are plastic telephones and radios. Above all, children are drawn to the "action figures" and fashion dolls, which allow them to invent grownups over whom they have complete control...