Word: janitorism
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Little Boy does not have a job. He was a janitor once, and a tribal policeman for a while when his uncle was police commissioner. But jobs on the Sioux's Pine Ridge reservation are so scarce that only 1 out of every 3 adults has one. In fact, as in hundreds of other reservations where Third World conditions prevail, there is only one real source of income, only one source of medical services and of food. There is only one real source of hope that someday Little Boy's family will be able to move out of squalor...
When they can't get an analyst, trader or market player to explain the ups and downs, and the janitor at the stock exchange is also busy, they have two choices. The first is to bring Wall Street into it, otherwise known as the market, as in "Wall Street has not been particularly worried about the dollar's slide" (the Times, April 8), or "the market was succumbing to the correction that some economists had been anticipating" (the Journal, April 12). Wall Street and the market are constantly fretting, shrugging off bad news, cheering good news and even looking forward...
...next year or so, by Martinez's account, his friend toiled as a bookbinder, a security guard and a janitor, sometimes working two or three jobs at once. Yet he found time to help Martinez around his home. And in December 1977, Martinez says, he was godfather to Koernke's newborn daughter...
Gritz: Koernke and Thompson are figuratively yelling "Fire!" in a theater. Koernke may be a janitor, but this guy is a very clever, very well-read man. And Linda Thompson is an attorney. There's no excuse for her telling people to go to Washington and bring their guns. Maybe they use this type of explosive, irresponsible rhetoric to draw crowds...
...education could limit one's security."We were on welfare my whole childhood, on AFDC[Aid to Families with dependent Children]. My momdidn't have a job and my dad wasn't around. My momwas unemployed for a lot of it. She did mostlyfactory work, manual labor, as a janitor,delivering auto parts, the sort of job you getwhile you're waiting for a real job. Because ofher education, she only qualified for the lowestpaying...