Word: menials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most part the life of the ICCS team at Tri Ton is a steady stream of hot, humid days inadequately filled with reading, eating and tedious paper work. A Vietnamese staff of 42 (including twelve guards and numerous cooks and maids) does most of the menial tasks. "We are not accustomed to servants in our country," says one of the Eastern Europeans, "but we can get used to this." He smiles as one of the Vietnamese servant girls pads by in black satin pajamas...
...miniature" is simply untrue. It is an artificial community: its population is very small and, as the author admits, homogenous due to its selective admissions policy; it buys the technological means to its pleasure from the outside world; its many visitors and guests are required to do the menial but necessary work no one in the community wants...
...female subjects were housewives or held undemanding jobs, while all of the males had stimulating careers. For this reason, Kangas attributes the male-female IQ differences to his subjects' jobs-or lack of them. Though he admits that he cannot prove it, he theorizes that performing menial tasks may not only bore some women, but may even hold them back intellectually...
...Labor Department also ordered Bethlehem Steel to revamp seniority rules at its big mill in Sparrows Point, Md. These rules have kept most blacks in relatively menial jobs. If a black managed to get a transfer to a better job, he had to give up the seniority rights he had built up over the years and risk being among the first fired in a layoff. The Government order demands that workers, black and white, be allowed to transfer to other departments and keep all their seniority rights. Those seeking transfers, however, must meet rudimentary requirements showing that they are capable...
...Menial. One chief tool of discrimination, according to blacks, is the periodic job evaluation rating. Consistently low ratings not only keep a man from being promoted, but can lead to a general rather than an honorable discharge. Blacks believe that they are given lower ratings than whites for the same level of performance. As Harvey Peters, a black member of the Constellation's human relations council, explains: "A man can work twelve or 16 hours at work that is menial. For example, in the laundry, he may press and fold clothes for the officers. They get their clothes...