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Elizabeth W. Hirsh, another health clinic employee fired for participating in the grievance meeting, returned to work after Schiffer as a result of a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision, Schiffer said...
...After Hirsh returned, the university installed a new supervisor to write reports only on Hirsh and Schiffer, denied Hirsh and Schiffer access to the infirmary and refused to permit them to "go to the john except for lunch and break time," Schiffer said...
...Social Limits To Growth, economist Fred Hirsh contends that this paradox illustrates a profound change. In a modern affluent society, biological needs for life-sustaining food, shelter and clothing are easily met. People instead become preoccupied with status. Incentives, Hirsch, claims, become social, not material, in nature...
Declared A.M.A. General Counsel Bernard Hirsh, 56: "When you want to work and can't, that's discrimination. Chronological age is an artificial barrier-it doesn't change you from a competent to an incompetent person." Compulsory retirement, the medical group insists, can be a prime factor in an older person's physical and emotional deterioration. Conversely, work after age 65 can improve life expectancy, increase physical and emotional stamina, even boost earning power. "I'm not built for retirement," declares Weisbrod flatly. "I don't want to sit on a park bench." Thousands...
There is a final question some audiences will undoubtedly ask: Why make the trio a bisexual one? But that artistic decision simply deepens Hirsh's aloofness, and the doubtfulness that he will ever achieve the sort of earthly happiness that Alex works for. By portraying a man so socially limited, Schlesinger and Gilliatt heighten their point's effectiveness...