Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just the beginning. Today's jobs also require greater judgment on the part of workers. Clerks at Hartford's Travelers insurance company no longer just type endless claim forms and pass them along for approval by someone else. Instead they are expected to settle a growing number of minor claims on the spot with a few deft punches of the computer keyboard. Now, says Bob Fenn, director of training at Travelers: "Entry-level clerks have to be capable of using information and making decisions...
Player Average Ron Mitchell 13.3. Mike Gielen 13.2 Neil Phillips 11.4 Mal Hollensteiner 7.5 Fred Schernecker 6.0 Tedd Evers 5.6 Eric Carter 5.0 Mike Minor 5.0 Ian Smith 3.7 Scott Gilly...
...relief planes have crashed, killing more than 80 people, and minor collisions have been reported among the throng of aircraft that stacked up over the weekend...
...powerful drama, the tragedy of a man who had to betray himself in order to survive. "The filmmakers did not make a saint of Shostakovich," observes Volkov of the movie. "There are no saints in real life. He is shown as a man forced to compromise on minor things to save himself for more important things." It is a Faustian bargain few composers would like to face, even if they could write a lifetime of masterpieces in return...
...political thriller Favorite Son sparked a minor furor with suggestive scenes of bondage and other kinky sex. Geraldo Rivera put a few noses out of joint with his grisly NBC special on satanic cults. Male strippers flaunted their pecs and pelvises in the ABC movie Ladykillers, while NBC's The F.B.I. Murders culminated in perhaps the longest and bloodiest shoot-out in TV history. Even the classy ABC mini-series War and Remembrance turned off some viewers with its graphic scenes of Nazi atrocities...