Word: franks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STEVE BRILL were the type who sings in the shower, he would never have written a book which accomplishes the remarkable: pissing off both Frank Fitzsimmons, boss of the Teamsters Union, and Pete Camerata, leading light of the dissident group, Teamsters for a Democratic Union...
...every hundred Americans, one of every twenty American families, and one of every ten American union members is a dues-paying member of Frank Fitzsimmons' union. Teamsters are cafeteria workers at Penn State, sanitationmen in New York City,...zookeepers in San Diego,...cartoonists in Hollywood,...McDonald's hamburger-bun makers in Tennessee,...brewers in Milwaukee,...and 450,000 truckers and warehousemen around the country who drive and store everything from diapers to coffins...
...defies belief that Frank Trippett could write a full page on the '70s without one word about inflation [Dec. 251. If there is anything future generations will recall about this decade, it will be the disappearance of the 25? hamburger, the 10? Coke and the $5 three-martini lunch. E.L. Estes Jr. Racine, Wis. Eying Evil...
...Most people complain about the paper work only if they don't get a deer," says Frank Fennesz, 19, of Union City, as he hefts 113 Ibs. of venison-to-be back into the bed of his pickup. Fennesz's only complaint is the rainy weather, not be cause he minds getting wet but because rain turns dry, rustling leaves into a soundless carpet of mush. "If you don't see the deer, you can't hear them in weather like this." Chatting with one an other as they stand around in the glare of headlights...
...they may warn, demote or even talk into early retirement a 63-year-old, say, who is slipping. In the past, an employer could close his eyes to that worker's failing performance in the knowledge that the worker would be gone in two years anyway. Now, says Frank D. Sweeten, vice president of Sperry Rand, "that two years becomes seven years, and we have to take a harder look at performance." Some employers would like to transfer to less demanding jobs those good workers who are slowing down, but are concerned that the employees will consider...