Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eastern Iran and perhaps 300,000 more in Afghanistan. In 1972 Pakistan's Baluch launched a revolt against the regime of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who retaliated harshly over the next four years. At the peak of the fighting, the Shah supplied helicopters and pilots to help 70,000 Pakistani soldiers put down the rebellion of 55,000 bearded, turbaned Muslim guerrillas, who were mostly armed with local versions of Britain's Edwardian-vintage Lee-Enfield rifle. Since then, the Baluch have been relatively quiet. But members of a Marxist Baluchistan People's Liberation Front...
Blue-collar workers have generally stayed ahead of inflation by winning wage increases so large that the payments lately have actually begun to help force up the cost of living for everybody. Members of powerful unions like the steel and auto workers enjoy escalator clauses in their contracts that automatically boost paychecks as inflation rises. Military men and women have more than kept up with inflation because pay scales have been raised-in some cases spectacularly-to recruit and keep people in the all-volunteer services...
...like to transfer to less demanding jobs those good workers who are slowing down, but are concerned that the employees will consider it a slight. James M. Seamon, vice president of Nalco Chemical Co. in Oak Brook, Ill., asserts: "We have to change people's thinking around to help them feel that accepting a job with lesser responsibility means no loss of face or social standing or personal prestige...
...attributed his success to his rather square and old-fashioned philosophy that "man with God's help and personal dedication is capable of anything he can dream." But who could argue with the shrewdly audacious small-town boy who put together the world's foremost chain of luxury hotels and became a multiple millionaire and one of the most colorful American businessmen? From New York to Istanbul and from Las Vegas to Addis Ababa, the name of Conrad Nicholson Hilton was synonymous with hotel, as in "I'm staying at the Hilton...
...Moran has the training but not the panache to sing them convincingly (where O where is Flora Purim?). Bassist Stanley Clarke cannot sing well--and on this date he sounds like he has both a head cold and a bad case of stage fright. The banal lyrics don't help matters...