Word: manual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour ordeal of a Security Check, carried out on a lie detector-at Burrough's expense! He also describes the penalties for crimes against Scientology: "a student must wear a gray rag around his arm, may not bathe, shave or change clothes, must remain on the premises, must perform manual work, deliver a paralyzing blow to the enemy, admit his errors and petition every member of the center for forgiveness...
...executive best known for driving Avis from a distant second in the car-rental field to wealth and prominence in only three years (1962 to 1965) as its chief executive officer. (He now is owner of a small newsletter, The Congressional Monitor.) His book is more a hip survival manual than a reasoned study. Its short chapters pop corporate conceits like balloons at a shooting gallery, but often fail to offer anything of substance to replace them. Still, many of his observations will bring nervous laughs in executive suites...
What is more, students do not form an elite group, shut off from the people who work, as they do in the U.S. As long as there is manual labor in agriculture, it will be shared by students, technicians, planners, everyone. Lazara has worked in ten harvests, Hugo in eight. Pedro in five. Alberto thinks the volunteer work he did plating eucalyptus trees was even harder than cane-cutting. "It wasn't planting the trees that was so hard-it was digging the holes...
...production from fertilization to replanting. In this way kids grow up experiencing a harmony between intellectual and practical work. They are taking an active part in Cuba's great task of economic development, and they'll grow up to be adults with a wider consciousness of both mental and manual labor because...
...rise of dissent ? or rather, the decline of Confucian decorum ? has stunned Japan's elders. A measure of their confusion is the advice on handling students contained in a manual circulated among the faculty of Tokyo's Chuo University. They should be treated "as foreigners," the handbook ad vises, "with all their different sets of modes, customs and thoughts." Still, older Japanese take comfort from the fact that so far most of the young ka-minari (thunderbolts) have dutifully taken "their proper place" in the ser vice of company and country after graduation. A few businessmen...