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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place on Capitol Hill where most employees are black is the House folding room. Workers there complain that they are sometimes forced to labor 70-hour weeks under sweatshop conditions. A House committee found that the dingy basement room has poor air circulation and that it exposes workers to noxious fumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Above Their Own Laws | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Largely because of the fear that Black Monday engendered, most students began their searches earlier in the academic year and pursued jobs more aggressively. Applicants from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill mailed out resumes to as many as 50 employers each, instead of the 20 or so that most members of last year's class targeted. An all-day career seminar at the University of Virginia (total enrollment: 11,096) drew a standing-room- only crowd of more than 550 students, even though it was held on a Saturday. Says Larry Simpson, U.Va.'s placement director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Demand: the Class of '88 | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...group is cautioned about fires and littering, and then scatters. A few less experienced hunters trail along behind Bo, scaling a nearly vertical hill of fine, sliding sandstone and hard rock, arriving just below a cavernous outcropping -- a den. Browning is on his hands and knees peering into the dark crevices under the ledge, reflecting sunlight into the deep shadows with a mirror. He and a couple of Jaycees consult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: A Local Spring Rite | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...Richard Perle, then an aide to Senator Henry Jackson, later an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration. "The study contained some very sensitive intelligence," recalls former CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who forced Sullivan to resign from the agency. Hardly slowed by the episode, Sullivan moved to Capitol Hill as an aide to Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington's Master Leakers | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Pillsbury was ousted from the staff of the Senate Budget Committee in 1978 for criticizing U.S. Ambassador to Japan Mike Mansfield during a meeting with Japanese officials in Tokyo. While holding a high-level job in the Pentagon from 1984 to 1986, he frequently appealed to friends on Capitol Hill when he felt that the Reagan Administration was not sufficiently supportive of anti- Communist movements in Angola, Nicaragua and Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington's Master Leakers | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

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