Word: moonlighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Italian guesstimates are that nearly 5 million "unemployed, retired and sick" people-a fifth of the nation's total labor force-work full or part time at jobs that do not officially exist. Another 3 million are believed to moonlight regularly at unreported second and even third jobs. Entire families work at home assembling ball-point pens, making shoes, stamping out auto parts or upholstering furniture. Hospital nurses work after hours in clinics; cops and firemen do lucrative plumbing or electrical work in their spare time. Many wages are substandard: as low as $60 a month. But there...
Sitting by moonlight in overstuffed wicker chairs on the manicured lawn Vance and Sadat surveyed the Middle East situation for 3½ hours-more than twice as long as the American had anticipated. During the session, which was later characterized in American diplomatic phrases as "very useful" and "constructive," Vance put forward some of the proposals" he had brought with him from Washington. Among them: that the Palestine Liberation Organization be allowed to participate in a Geneva Peace Conference only after it recognizes Israel s right to exist; that the boundaries of Isarel be a matter for negotiation; that "real...
...administrative offices around the country, finds that while the workers love it, business callers sometimes get frustrated trying to reach someone on the phone on a Friday afternoon. Other four-day companies have found that workers tend to use their longer weekends to moonlight on second jobs, and thus show up exhausted when they return on Mondays. Many companies simply cannot afford the long weekend because federal law requires any firm with more than $10,000 in Government business to pay overtime to employees who work more than eight hours...
Have you seen that awful den of hellish infamy-with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes? Have you felt the Vampire's lips upon your throat...
Senior activities planned by the Class Committee include a lobster clambake, a moonlight cruise along Boston harbor and a double-header for seniors at Fenway park with the Boston Red Sox facing the Milwaukee Brewers, Marcus said...