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...grease. "There was gum on the cement patio, cigarette butts between the wheel stops for the cars," he says. "There was rust on the wrought-iron railing, and the redwood fence needed to be restained. I went in there and said to the manager: 'You get somebody to mop this goddamned floor right now. And if you don't, I'll do it myself...
Ruth Geyer is a biology major at Oberlin, but three days a week (for $3 an hour) she dons an apron to wax furniture, wash windows and mop the floors of a ten-room house in the wealthy Philadelphia suburb of Rosemont, Pa. "I haven't had any other experience, so maybe I'm just lucky to have found it," she says...
...white flag of the Jeunesse Révolutlonnaire, the paramilitary youth groups who did most of the killing. The youth groups are run by the Tutsis' Party of Unity and National Progress (Uprona), which in effect rules the country. The job of the Jeunesse is to mop up after the soldiers, killing any Hutus the troops have missed in their savage campaign against the "rebels." Survivors have told stories of men, women and children being herded into straw huts and burned alive. Refugees arrived in Tanzania with their hands, ears, even their feet chopped off. This year the Tutsis...
...concludes Keith Davis, a professor of management at Arizona State University, who has been studying office and factory rumors for 20 years. "With the rapidity of a burning powder train," Davis asserts, "information flows out of the woodwork, past the manager's door and the janitor's mop closet, through steel walls or construction-glass partitions." Moreover, "well over three-fourths" of company rumors are accurate...
...long, stringy black hair looked like a mop that had been left out overnight to dry. The four other members of the band wore white satin. Behind the group tucked away in dark corners of the 8½-ton portable stage or in the wings, was a staggering $150,000 array of props-including an operating table, a 9½-ft mummy with light-up eyes, assorted swords and switchblades...