Word: job
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personal note, Sununu said his job as chief of staff was similar to his former job as governor of New Hampshire...
Edward was suddenly dismissed from his job after ten years of service with the company. We have no idea what he did or didn't do, but is quite possible that his drinking had something, if not everything, to do with his being fired at the age of fifty-five..But the dire implications of the firing produced in Scott an enduring conflict of feeling about his father...
...proletarian comrades in the Soviet Union have reportedly downed tools for higher pay, while others burned a prosperous collective that raised pigs because it was too successful. In Poland the economic program of Solidarity runs directly counter to any efforts at reform. It demands higher wages, stable prices and job security. In China efforts to decentralize decision making have resulted in economic anarchy as local authorities assumed the power to tax or even create money that citizens had earlier unquestioningly granted to the Emperor or Mao. And in all three countries housewives, unable to make the connection between higher prices...
...made a phone call to the Los Angeles treasurer. The savings and loan bank, meanwhile, was involved in a multimillion-dollar tax dispute with the city, and had been awarded several zoning changes. Following those disclosures, Bradley repaid his $18,000 fee to the Chinatown bank and quit his job as director of the thrift institution, but the taint of impropriety remained. "Dubious moonlighting," the Los Angeles Times called...
Some Sweetwater residents are wary of the newcomers. "A lot of people still go back to World War II," explains Otha McGaughey, who left her job at a local restaurant to work as T.M.G.'s food-service manager. But most seem open to learning about another culture. Says hosiery-mill owner Jackson Jones: "Both sides are trying hard to put their best foot forward...