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...serpents, however, have begun to crawl into northern California's economic Garden of Eden. Though renowned for their liberal personnel policies, some Silicon Valley employers are under attack for their treatment of hourly production workers. Assembling circuit boards or inspecting chips is a tedious dead-end job that has attracted thousands of Mexicans, Filipinos and Vietnamese immigrants. Many earn wages of less than $5 an hour, low by industry standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Striking It Rich: A new breed of risk takers is betting on the high-technology future | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...shopkeeper, artist-as-vermin mentality--these are questions that Hayman knows are unanswerable. How 'bout that Gresor Samsa--transformed into a dung beetle so he kills himself with sorrow watching his family carry on the breadwinning without him. And with all that space on the ceiling where you crawl till your heart's content...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Edelstein, | Title: Life With Father | 2/9/1982 | See Source »

...VATICAN, as the saying goes, "thinks in centuries." Today, more than ever, this habit of mind may present drastic difficulties for a Church which must keep up with revolutions sexual, industrial and demographic, or today's flocks may outpace their shepherds' century-a-step crawl. The drama of a church falling behind the very people it is supposed to lead is the stuff of which great books are made. This, unfortunately, is not the book...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: No Divine Intervention | 12/11/1981 | See Source »

...grapplers were victorious in nine of their ten matches, and in the closest match of the evening, the Panthers managed to crawl away with a 2-2 tie in the 134-pound division...

Author: By Ben Sherwood, | Title: Grapplers Man-Handle Panthers 34-2; Nine Victories Highlight Season Opener | 12/2/1981 | See Source »

...meanest nastiest filthie to translation we could find," says one lead. Like the lyrics to the "anti-operatic songs, some of the combative harshness in the acting makes the audience shift uneasily. But it gives them at the same time the feeling that Cutler & Co. meant their skin to crawl this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAST, ARCO & 3PO: The Fall Season Hits Its Stride | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

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