Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems. In any case, the streets are swept bone-dry by thousands of snowplows. Giant "snow eater" machines called snegouborki scoop up the snow and dump it onto conveyor belts, which deposit it in trucks, which unload it into the Moskva River. As the first flakes fall, at any hour of day or night one can hear the scritch-scratch of individual snow shovels and brooms, generally woman-powered...
...pleasant accompaniment of a noisy but relatively subdued gale. The revelry wore on late into the night: one well-prepared inebriate fell asleep in a corner wearing flippers, a snorkel and a life preserver, while his brother wandered outside singing Hindu praises to the 60 mile-an-hour gusts still whipping through the town. Most were still snoring peacefully when I returned the next afternoon, cursing every weatherman who had ever picked up a satellite photograph...
Cantor yesterday described this policy as "compensatory hour shifting" and an attempt to "strike a balance" between the necessity to "get the work done" and the safety of employees...
...Marie Sullivan '79 it meant going from a $2.75 an hour dull job in the music library to a better paying, more interesting spot as a research assistant in the psychology department--a big change for a psych major who admits "knowing nothing about music...
Although no major new agreement was reached during the two-and-a-half hour meeting, the two sides discussed the non-economic issues which had lowered the department's morale and stalled the wage bargaining, Lawrence Lettiri, president of the Police Association, said yesterday...