Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discrimination, she saw that she belonged to both the middle class and the economically handicapped. With Laurie Shields, 58, a widow ("someone who always thought of myself as Mrs. Arthur Shields"), Sommers organized the Alliance for Displaced Homemakers in 1975 and traveled around the country to focus interest on the problem...
...resume and surviving a job interview, the centers also work on finding openings and persuading employers to take a chance on older women. In boom areas like Texas, that may be enough. But in Baltimore, where there are not enough jobs, Cynthia Marano says, "We have learned to focus on creating jobs." Example: the Baltimore center helped clients start eight cleaning businesses...
...Plastic Workers of America and the four major tire companies-Firestone, BF Goodrich, Goodyear and Uniroyal-expire in April. The militant union has conducted eight major strikes since 1960; the last, in 1976, dragged on for 141 days. Another next year is likely. Still, the union's demands focus on job security rather than wages, and the cost of the settlement could be partly offset by changes in work rules...
Never has a magazine cover had such an impact upon me. That single photograph of the dead in Guyana [Dec.4] brought the entire Boschian horror into focus. The scene will be forever engraved in my memory...
Rajab Motamedi, 45, is a shopkeeper in Tehran's central bazaar, focus of some of the most violent anti-Shah protests. Like other small merchants, Motamedi has been hurt by Iran's cruel inflation (currently 50% annually) more than he has been helped by the prosperity that has expanded the country's middle class, and he believes that the Shah's drive to make Iran a modern industrial state has led to foreign domination. Jailed three times for anti-government activities, he has closed his shop and vows not to reopen until the Shah is overthrown...