Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a responsibility to our customers. Our meter readers go into people's homes." Independent experts share the executives' concerns. Says Peter Bensinger, a former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration who is now a leading consultant on corporate drug problems: "Companies do have a right and responsibility to establish sound working conditions. We're talking about people and their safety, and our own individual rights to work in a safe environment." Company officials also point out that a strong stance against drugs is basically humanitarian because it ultimately benefits workers who use them as much as it does...
Once companies acknowledge and confront the drug threat, their first task is to establish a consistent policy that is both firm and fair. Typically, companies decide to dismiss workers caught taking or selling drugs on the job but also offer a helping hand to users who voluntarily admit their problem...
Like Napoleon, some of the deposed might enjoy the "company of people of my own fortune." Instead of shuffling these men around uncomfortably, it may be time to consolidate the arrangements, to establish a home for them, a sort of Island of the Lost Big Boys, a Club Med for the undone...
...might have been expected, Reagan knew just what to do once his SOB got loose. Indeed, there are those suspicious souls who think he may have promoted the escape just to establish a little macho for the coming budget battles. Only a couple of hours went by before White House Spokesman Larry Speakes was explaining that the President had no recollection of letting out an SOB. He had just turned to Packard and remarked, "It's sunny and you're rich...
Aquino's first challenge was to establish a cohesive administration, a task made difficult by Marcos' debilitating legacy of one-man rule. Mindful of the dangers of a political vacuum, she moved swiftly to show that she was in charge. During her first full day as President, she appointed 17 Cabinet ministers and held her first news conference. In an effort to defuse the impulse to seek revenge on Marcos followers, she spoke forcefully of the need for reconciliation. The President, who has frequently called Marcos the "No. 1 suspect" in the 1983 assassination of her husband, Senator Benigno ("Ninoy...