Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's kitchen workers last night decided in a close vote to accept the University's contract offer, reversing an earlier vote in September to reject the same contract...
...pass his exams and shows a "good attitude." The Ts'aos' combined monthly income is about $117. They pay $2.40 a month, including electricity for four bulbs, for a pleasant, three-room apartment in an eight-year-old block of flats for factory workers. It has no kitchen (they eat in can teens), but the Ts'aos have cookouts on their balcony. They have no running water and share a toilet with several other families. The Ts'aos probably would not be encouraged to have three children today...
...their own house, a fairly new whitewashed brick building in a row of ten attached tile-roofed dwellings on a narrow lane. Their home, which they share with three daughters, 11, 9 and 4, consists of a small entry hall, large liv ing room and sizable bedroom, small kitchen and back court with privy; they bathe in a communal facility. The tile-floored, high-ceilinged rooms are hot in summer, but they have an electric fan. Among other coveted "things that go round," as the rural Chi nese put it, they have an electric clock, a sewing machine...
...three men said they decided to grow beards this year as a result of comments by Charles J. Krause Jr., sanitary inspector for the University Health Services (UHS), at a seminar for kitchen workers last spring. Krause told workers that facial hair was sanitary, and thus acceptable in kitchens if "beard restraints," or surgical masks were worn...
...infection could spread either from contaminated dairy products or from an infected food worker, but the investigators say it will take some time to analyze the hundreds of samples they have taken from kitchen workers and student food handlers...