Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twice fired. Will I be tagged a troublemaker? Why does my secretary resent picking up my laundry and balancing my checkbook? My boss throws temper tantrums. What do I do? Well, you could ask Andy. In a column published each Wednesday in the San Jose Mercury News, Andrew Grove, president of Intel, a semiconductor manufacturer, answers questions about the woes of the workplace. Since last October, Grove has been dealing with two letters a week in the column "High Output Management," which has been modeled after "Dear Abby...
...Customs agents' parlance, to the East bloc. Last month U.S. marshals arrested Marino Pradetto, 46, the Italian operator of a West German electronics firm who was in California for a trade fair, and charged him with illegal diversion of a powerful VAX II/780 mainframe computer to Czechoslovakia through San Jose, Haiti and Switzerland...
...gravediggers began loosening the solid red clay with pickaxes and then started shoveling. Almost an hour later, their tools struck against the light- colored wood of a coffin. The diggers broke open the casket and, as the crowd jockeyed for position, began handing the contents up to Jose Antonio de Mello, assistant director of the Sao Paulo police forensic team. There emerged some dentures and a few earth-stained bones, some still covered by a pair of rotting trousers. And as journalists scribbled and photographers clicked, De Mello, like some macabre Hamlet, held up a skull...
...days the general hospital of the Social Security Institute in San Salvador had been controlled by striking hospital employees demanding higher wages and better working conditions. In the view of Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, the strike was part of a wave of Communist-inspired labor unrest. Last week helicopter-borne police commandos were ordered to retake the hospital. The result was mayhem...
...miles from San Jose to train hundreds of civil guardsmen. The only bright spot was El Salvador, where captured documents gave backing to Administration claims that Salvadoran leftist guerrillas have strong ties to Nicaragua and the Soviet bloc...