Word: depositer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Labor relations on the kibbutz sound like a factory manager's version of The Impossible Dream. The factories pay no wages to kibbutz members, though they deposit their profits in the treasury that maintains the collective farm. The workers nevertheless labor hard-kibbutz factories raised their productivity an imposing 11% last year -and none has ever gone on strike. The kibbutz plants consequently keep prices extremely low: high school and college lab equipment is sold in the U.S. at 20% below the price charged by American companies, and plastic flushing systems for toilets are sold in Africa...
...work shown here, from Seymour Rosofsky's clumsy paintings to more overtly "aesthetic" objects like Don Baum's lumpen-surrealist assemblages of dolls' limbs or Cosmo Campoli's inert tributes to Brancusi, is a wretched thesaurus of cliches. But subtract them and a deposit of vitality remains...
...husband supervised loans and scouted for mergers, Mrs. Sandler concentrated on attracting savings depositors. Particularly to woo women customers, she put originally commissioned works of art into every branch and offered tired shoppers a cup of coffee and a lounge. She also lured depositors by giving them free safety-deposit boxes and traveler's checks at no extra cost. Result: since 1963, Golden West's assets have expanded from $35 million to $500 million, and it has grown from two branches...
...quickly collects a full load of south-side passengers and drops them off at a comfortable waiting room, where regular buses pick them up for the ride to Regina's downtown area. In the evening, the Telebuses pick up returning workers at the waiting rooms and deposit them at their doorsteps...
...middle-class minority, while the majority remains mired in varying degrees of poverty. Even President Medici concedes: "The economy is going well, the people not so well." As a start on redistributing the wealth, the government now requires employers to open bank accounts for all employees and deposit part of the firm's profits into them. Workers are permitted to draw on this account only to buy a house, pay medical bills or pursue other goals that the government deems worthwhile...