Word: hards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pity the poor postalworker, however hard that may be for the millions who have stood in line for half an hour staring at the wanted flyers, only to have a gum-snapping clerk reject their package because it fails to comply with official wrapping regulations ("No string; paper tape only. Next!"). Attracted to their positions by good pay, generous benefits, job security and a predictable, not to say slow, pace, today's postalworkers are being dragged | against their will into the 21st century by the anthem of the Age of Fax: get a move...
Substitute Social Security checks and Christmas cards for fudge caramels, imagine 150,000 annual grievance proceedings and 69,000 disciplinary actions instead of firing, and a picture of the modernized Postal Service emerges. Officials downplay the problems but admit that the new pace is hard on older clerks accustomed to stuffing mail into pigeonholes. Yet the old-fashioned postalworker represented by two powerful unions is going to have to adjust. "We've got to capture the savings dollar-for-dollar that these machines represent, or we can kiss the Postal Service as we know it goodbye," says Robert Setrakian, chairman...
...hiring Louis-Dreyfus, the Saatchis have harked back to the skill that transformed their small agency in London's Soho district into an international behemoth: hard-nosed financial know-how. The Iraqi-born brothers convinced London investors a decade ago that the ad business was an intriguing play. The logic of global corporate expansion, they argued, demanded an agency that could provide one-stop shopping for multinational firms interested in advertising and marketing services that stretched from Asia to North America to Europe. Such an agency could help companies build worldwide markets for their brands and could reap extra profits...
...bluster on the left, Gorbachev's greatest challenge comes from the reactionary conservatives. They make up a bizarre patchwork quilt: hard- line trade unionists and factory workers from groups like the United Worker's Front who oppose a "return to capitalism"; military officials angered by plans to convert defense factories to civilian use; entrenched party apparatchiks who fear the loss of position and privileges; and Russian nationalists who hanker after the Czarist past, many of them aligned with the reactionary Pamyat (Memory) movement. Whatever their ideological differences, the conservatives are united by a concern that the reforms are moving...
Still in the saddle after Hollywood, hard drinking and two failed marriages, the rambunctious novelist has just produced what critics call his best book to date...