Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Harkness Commons dining workers will not be laid off--University Food Services will place them in other areas at the beginning of the academic year--some union members charge that the action represents a "union-busting" effort by the University, and label the move a dangerous precedent...
Soon after Lewis Carroll's Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole, she finds a little bottle with a label tied round its neck. Printed on it is a short, direct message: DRINK ME. Prudently, Alice looks to make sure there is no additional marking saying POISON, mindful that imbibing toxic liquids "is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later." Discovering none, she obeys the command-and shrinks to a height of ten inches...
Much like the unsuspecting Alice, today's patients frequently feel they are falling into a drug Wonderland. All too often the powerful pills and potions prescribed by doctors come with nothing more than the pharmacist's typed label bearing the drug's name and the unedifying command: "Take as directed." Even if the physician has provided added information in his office, it may be woefully inadequate. Given hurriedly, short on detail, with possible harmful consequences glossed over or even omitted, the instructions frequently seem to be following the hoary 16th century precept of England's Royal...
...Though the organizers express a commitment to building "a direct action movement against nuclear power and the social, economic and political systems that produce it," their tactics may serve to stifle that movement when the country needs it most. Americans have never responded well to those the powerful can label "terrorists"--the more "militant" the New Left and the civil rights movement became, the less they effected public sentiments and policy...
...lawyer responsible for authorizing the network's payments to the company that produces Charlie's Angels, Spelling-Goldberg Productions, owned by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg. Last summer Martin noted that the network was being billed a $30,000 "exclusivity" fee for each episode. The exclusivity label was unusual since ABC already had exclusive rights to the series. Moreover, the amount referred to was in addition to the regular fee of $510,000 per show. When Martin inquired further, an unidentified official at Spelling-Goldberg, one of Hollywood's most profitable TV production companies, told her that...