Word: fitters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inhaled the fumes of the foliage that had been killed by Agent Orange." Before long, he says, he began suffering from diarrhea, vomiting and headaches, and in 1969 was given an honorable discharge. Back in West Babylon, N.Y., the veteran's health deteriorated rapidly; today the unemployed steam fitter's ailments include brain lesions and degenerative joint disease...
Aiding Chrysler, the weakest of the big three auto companies, penalizes those that are fitter and undermines the competitive principle. Darwin would not have approved of bailing out Chrysler...
Those of us who served in Viet Nam may be fitter, but it is usually those who didn't go who have the jobs...
...they? That raises an interesting Darwinian problem: Which group is stronger; which is fitter? The young who demonstrated their moral energy?as well as their social clout, often enough?by avoiding the draft, by staying in college or heading across to Canada? Or the so-called suckers who got caught in the draft? (Were they stupid? Patriotic? Defenseless?) Those suckers passed through a physical and moral test that the others (however principled their refusal) will never know...
...since the first landing of men on the moon had the nation shown such enthusiastic interest in space. Teachers interrupted classes so youngsters could see the landing. Work in offices and factories virtually ceased. Hearing that Columbia was about to touch down, a fitter in a Manhattan men's shop dashed off to the nearest TV set, leaving a customer standing before a mirror all pinned up in an unfinished suit. The Atlanta Constitution's resident cartoonist, Baldy, showed a beaming Uncle Sam emerging out of the shuttle with his arms raised high like a victorious boxer...