Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search for the perfect play, Simon's style has noticeably matured, though he smiles at the notion of dividing his career into periods of "early Simon" and "mature Simon." The early plays, he feels, were all on one level, devoted to getting the fun out of a funny situation; he now digs deeper psychologically and is willing to explore human traumas more openly. A wide difference in Simon's handling of painful experience divides Come Blow Your Horn, his first production, from Chapter II, his latest straight play. Come Blow Your Horn transformed the attempts of Simon and his brother...
...moralize on the state of our collective national soul. "I worry in this country when we don't go out of our way to help people less fortunate....We give away billions of dollars every year, and yet we have millions in our own country living below the poverty level," he says...
...been taking the lead in the automobile industry in introducing such programs, we've had some pretty good success. Local unions seem enamoured of QWL programs where they've had a taste of introducing and initiating them. There is basic support being given to the idea by the top level executives of GM. We operate on certain basic principles which the corporation accepts: one, the introduction of any such program shall not increase the work pace of the workers; two, the program will not result in the layoff of any workers by reason of the program and three, that...
...Could you distingutsh job enlargement from actual worker participation in making decisions about the work process on the level of the shop--both from the point of view of your union and from the point of view of management and the corporation...
...obvious that GM is happy with our successful programs because the top-level executives are gung-ho in favor...