Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade, as the baby bust -- the smaller generation behind the huge baby boom -- comes of age, the labor force will grow more slowly than at any other time since the 1930s, expanding by just 1.3 million new workers each year. Says Tom Blumer, director of human relations at Corning Glass: "We no longer have the luxury of an unlimited labor supply...
...increase in family pressure on workers creates costly problems for business. Studies conducted by several large corporations, including IBM, Merck and Corning Glass, show that family responsibilities often contribute to reduced performance, higher turnover, greater absenteeism and worsening health among workers. Companies also lose out when experienced employees turn down a transfer or a promotion because they cannot reconcile work and family...
...LACMA) has risen from architectural hodgepodge to full-blast cacophony. Where but in Tinseltown could you see such an overlay of styles? First, the flaccid institutional moderne of the original buildings designed by William Pereira in the early '60s. Then the deco-ish hulk of stripes and glass blocks shoved in front of it by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer in 1986. And now the only major public building by America's maestro of post-Wrightian, off-the-wall kitsch, Bruce Goff...
...Journal-Bulletin's computer center, where Joselow took her troubled floppy, the detective work began immediately. Using a binary editor -- the computer equivalent of a high-powered magnifying glass -- Systems Engineer Peter Scheidler examined the disk's contents line by line. "What I saw wasn't pretty," says Scheidler. "It was garbage, a real mess." Looking for a way to salvage at least part of Joselow's work, he began peering into each of the disk's 360 concentric rings of data...
Click. A little boy, hating his older brother, lies in wait behind their bedroom door and strikes him so hard with a water carafe that it breaks. A gush of blood mingles with shattered glass...