Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chem 20 had a four-hour exam at the end of the fall 1972 semester, but all exams since that time have been the normal three hours...
...weekly probe of the American press. Tonight: How ethical are newspaper and TV reporters and editors? Should they accept free junkets from those they cover? Endorse commercial products? Take public stands on political issues? Interviews with Walter Cronkite, Harrison Salisbury, and Tom Wicker. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1 hour...
...several. Because alcohol is diluted in the blood, a 200-Ib. man can usually tolerate more liquor than a 110-lb. woman. Food also retards absorption of alcohol from the gastrointestinal tract, and a few ounces taken with a meal are less powerful than an equal amount downed an hour before. By the same token, some drinks with food in them-eggnogs made with eggs, milk and cream, for example-have slightly less wallop than straight drinks. The tomato juice in a Bloody Mary or the orange juice in a screwdriver is not enough to make any appreciable difference...
...contract will lift the present average wage of about $5.80 an hour, an average of 5% a year, with the biggest boosts coming in the first year. The lowest-paid workers will get an 18.4% increase initially. In addition, each of the 352,000 workers covered will get a $150 cash bonus. The increases go into effect May 1-the day after wage-price controls are expected to die-though the current contract extends to Aug. 1. A liberalized and potentially expensive escalator clause will add a penny an hour to wages for each rise of three-tenths...
...halls are guilty of the same arbitrary work assignments that made the contractors hated. Members of large families with only one car between them have been sent to widely separated fields. In some cases, workers say, U.F.W.A. dispatchers have played favorites. "Once I had to wait four hours last year before I could get dispatched," says Grape Picker Gloria Esquirrel, a former U.F.W.A. member. "The people who had put in time on the picket lines were sent out first." Since farm workers are generally paid by the hour (average wage: $2), such delays can result in serious financial loss...