Word: milles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Xuling enjoys a right that is basic in the capitalist world but is still a rarity in China. The 21-year-old spindle operator is free to quit her job at the No. 10 cotton mill in the northeastern coastal city of Qingdao. Reason: she has a five-year labor contract with the government that allows her to seek work elsewhere when the agreement expires...
...urine tested in August for evidence of drug use. Students in Hawkins, Texas, who hope to participate in extracurricular activities this fall have begun to do the same. So will many college and professional athletes, policemen, stockbrokers, soldiers, power-company linemen and applicants for jobs ranging from executive to mill hand, keeping laboratories working day and night. With an enthusiasm that critics charge borders on hysteria, officials at all levels of government and private business are seizing on drug testing as one idea that offers real hope of containing the narcotics plague...
Other miners continue to see a bonanza in more traditional methods. About eleven miles southeast of the Carson Hill site, Canadian-backed Sonora Mining has invested $85 million to build the largest conventional gold-processing mill in North America, due to open early next year. Sonora hopes to excavate 2 million oz. of gold from the hills around Jamestown (pop. 950), a sleepy settlement born during the 1849 gold rush...
Earlier yesterday the heir apparent to theBritish throne visited a market mill in Lowell,Wang Laboratories, and the Harvard-affiliatedDana-Farber Cancer Institute where he met withchildren being treated at the center...
After talking with mill workers in the middleof Lowell, Charles participated in a conference onyouth employment. Earlier yesterday, he spoke withmembers of Operation Raleigh, leadership andservice program which sends teenagers abroad onthree-month projects...