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...other schools, students have flocked to special job-hunting courses. Stanford, for example, is offering seniors special courses in Survival Tactics in the Job Market, How to Blow an Interview, and Opportunities in Biology. Frank Heuston, a career counselor at Northeastern, is teaching a special eight-hour seminar in how to land a job. Heuston acknowledges that his techniques "sometimes verge on the unethical" (for instance, he tells seniors to hang around executive bars, where they might meet prospective employers), but he says they work...
...state, they stumbled across Nate Shaw, then 84, a onetime union member who had served twelve years in prison for resisting the trumped-up confiscation of a neighbor's property back in 1932. A single question, "Why did you join the union?" spurred the black man into an eight-hour answer. More than 120 hours of taped reminiscences eventually followed. As Shaw poured out his life, he and Rosengarten quite literally made history...
...like an inverted pyramid, on the production of VC, and OSHA's new standards threaten that production. The agency ruled that starting Jan. 1, workers cannot be exposed to more than one part of vc per million parts of air (v. the present 50 p.p.m.), averaged over an eight-hour day, or to more than 5 p.p.m. for any period longer than 15 minutes. The new rule applies only to the some 6,000 workers who handle VC directly in 50 U.S. plants...
TODAY IS MAY DAY, the international revolutionary holiday. It's a holiday whose origins are a bit obscure--it may have grown out of the battle of workers in Chicago for an eight-hour day--but which has become a symbol of hope for people throughout the world...
...Lincoln's Birthday and the Nov. 5 general election. Other districts, like Kansas City, Mo., are shutting down several elementary schools and consolidating them with others. If the Idaho State Board of Education approves a petition of the Payette schools this month, Payette children will go to an eight-hour, four-day week every week...