Word: ground
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...justifies its action on the ground that it constitutes a safety program. At the targeted plants, which produce acoustical ceiling tiles and insulation products, workers are exposed to potentially hazardous dust from mineral fibers. Research suggests the risk of contracting lung diseases because of this dust is greater for smokers than nonsmokers. USG is not planning to ban smoking at its headquarters or other facilities where workers do not face the dust hazard...
...thing to ban smoking on the job; that is already done by such organizations as the Christian Science Monitor and Greyhound. But labor lawyers are convinced that USG is treading on wispy legal ground in trying to extend its prohibition past working hours. USG's plan, they say, will run into problems of discrimination against minorities or against the physically disabled. Editorialized the Chicago Sun Times: "The issue here isn't whether smoking is good or bad. The issue is this: How far can an employer reach into the employees' personal lives? Not this...
...fair and rewarding outcome is the offering of an opportunity to retired professors to continue research and writing," says Freund, who has a large office just to the left of the entrance on the ground floor of Langdell Hall. From this room cluttered with tons of law papers, magazines, and books, Freund has a ground-level view of Holmes Field...
...current strength, Kohl very nearly missed the chance to lead West Germany's new era of good feeling. Under his leadership the Christian Democrats lost ground in seven of ten state elections between October 1982 and June 1986. The Chancellor's political future seemed uncertain after he met President Reagan in 1985 at the German military cemetery in Bitburg, where 49 members of the Nazi SS are buried. Kohl was threatened with prosecution last year for allegedly perjuring himself during testimony concerning the suspected bribery of public officials by the Flick industrial group. Things began turning around for Kohl last...
Despite the kudos her work has won, Fisher's subject is still considered by many people to be lower literary ground. To such a criticism she had an early answer: "There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me, Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love...