Word: job
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performance." Nevertheless, he was increasingly disillusioned with his career, largely for reasons ranging from longer work hours and frozen pay levels to the growing powerlessness of captains to make their own judgments. A week before the oil spill, Hazelwood told a friend that he was thinking about taking a job as a harbor pilot on the Columbia River in Oregon...
...accident to replace Third Mate Cousins, the Valdez might also have got a more competent helmsman. Thanks in part to the high turnover of Exxon crews, Kagan, the helmsman on duty at the time of the accident, had been promoted to able seaman just one year earlier from his job as room steward and food server in the ship's galley. Kagan "does the best he can, but you have to watch him," a deck officer later told Government investigators. Knowing this, LeCain had planned to replace Kagan with another helmsman once he reported for duty...
...Terry Branstad visited Haynes' bedside and said at a news conference, "He was quite emotional about the situation, and tears came to his eyes when he talked about the number of people who lost their lives....I told him he did a valiant job...
Here too is where it fails miserably. Welfare amounts to free money, a completely un-American free lunch. When the money is gone, nothing has changed. Welfare does not require its recipients to go to school or acquire job training. Nor does it provide incentives for limiting the size of aid-dependant families. Welfare's structure, in fact, encourages people who cannot feed their current family to add more aiddependant children to the public dole...
...most painful job was approaching grieving relatives for missing information, as well as for photographs of the victims. In many cases, the relatives wanted to keep their sorrow private. In others, paradoxically, they did not want to cooperate with a project that might promote tighter gun laws...