Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because they do not want to be stuck with them when the economy turns down. But in a share system, says Weitzman, the company would have more incentive to hire new employees. The workers would be there to help when business is good, but they would not be a drag on earnings when it is bad because the employees' average pay would fall along with revenues. Workers might be willing to take a pay cut in exchange for job security. "Firms ever hungry for labor," writes the economist, would be "always on the prowl --cruising around like vacuum cleaners...
...University officials confirmed, the protestors offered extreme physical violence to Mr. Hoppenstein in pushing and grabbing him, and attempting to drag him to the round. There is no telling what the frenzied protestors might have done had they succeeded in knocking the Consul down...
Harvard's Winthrop House has its own inimitable way of fabricating spring. On the first Saturday that dares to show a shaft of sunlight between the thickly knit clouds, we drag out the grills and declare a barbeque. Eager and willing to celebrate this long-anticipated new season, impatient Winthropians don Hawaiian shirts and sun-glasses. Music comes blasting into the courtyard from some heavenly sphere--or is it really only that fourth floor window? Miraculously, a tire swing appears in a nearby tree. Idyllic, you say. Just exactly how a spring day should be, you say. Well...
Gorbachev has got major problems at home with the economy. Therefore where we in the West are strong, he needs our help. He's got to be concerned about Eastern Europe and the outer perimeters of the Soviet empire. Every one of the Soviet Union's "colonies" is a drag and has to be subsidized...
There will definitely be hockey (no need to hyperventilate over this one). And basketball. Both winter sports will drag into...