Word: mets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, not really, for the proposals amounted to a good deal less than met the eye. In the first place, the right of membership in labor unions will not apply to the country's 2 million "nonresident" black workers, a group that includes not only those from neighboring countries but also those whose legal residence is in the country's artificially created "tribal homelands." Moreover, no all-white unions will be required to take in black members, and no employers will be obliged to pay blacks and whites equally or to integrate company faculties if they...
...case, the company has the last laugh. One of its executives was suffering from a bad case of flu when he met with COWPS officials in Washington after the President's phone call. Some time later COWPS Director Barry Bosworth and several other agency officials were put to bed with what their colleagues are calling "Sears' revenge...
...file "deviation reports" explaining how and why they were unable to do so. An annual four-day show-and-tell fiesta at the sprawling company lodge at Minnesuing Acres near Superior, Wis., also spurs executive performance. Corporate officers are required to recount how they have or have not met their sales goals of the year. Recalls a former employee: "Carlson would chew you out for three hours straight while others stared down at the table, dreading that they would be next." Says Carlson: "You have to keep a little tension in the air, or things get too lackadaisical...
After Boston, he did his residency at the Neurological Institute in New York City. In 1941 he married Beryl Dawson, a Vassar girl he had met at a college dance; they were wed about a year when Thomas, then at the Rockefeller Institute, was called for service in the Navy. Lieut. Commander Thomas waded ashore during the dramatic invasion of Okinawa and collected a lifelong memory: "I went over the side of a troop transport with a case on my shoulder containing 50 white mice, bedded on white toilet paper. One soldier who watched me wade ashore with this load...
...mind, and he offered Thomas the chance to write a monthly column for the journal. There were two conditions: the columns could run no longer than one page (about 1,200 words), and they had to be submitted in time to meet deadlines. If these strictures were met, the editor offered a bonus: Thomas' pieces would be printed, with no changes or revisions, exactly as he had written them. "That was irresistible," recalls the columnist...