Word: musters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They Won't Shoot." When the trouble began outside Twelfth Street's blind pig, the 10th precinct at that early hour could muster only 45 men. Detroit police regard the dawn hours of Sunday, when the action is heaviest in many slums, as a "light period." The precinct captain rushed containing squads to seal off the neighborhood for 16 square blocks. Police Commissioner Ray Girardin decided, because of his previous success with the method, to instruct his men to avoid using their guns against the looters. That may have been a mistake...
...Just Warm Bodies. Kelly loftily contends that it is not just hiring out people. Instead, it is dealing in labor "systems." Tapping a work force of 130,000 through 276 offices in the U.S., the company provides teams for programming computers, can muster 50-man cadres for overnight inventories of department stores on a few hours' notice. Tellers trained in a special Kelly program help banks in 40 cities get through Monday and Friday rush hours. And an IBM 360 computer at Kelly's Detroit headquarters keeps track of a roster of Kelly technicians, including draftsmen and engineers...
...problem, they seek the aid of those who will be most likely to take action outside the System. They organize in the ghetto and poor working class areas around issues like draft resistance. The moderates scoff at this approach, and point to the small numbers the draft resistors can muster...
...liter engine and 500 horses under its hood. In pre-race trials, Ferrari mechanics watched disconsolately as four Mark IVs lapped the 8.3-mile track at better than 144 m.p.h., hitting speeds as high as 215 m.p.h. on the straight. The best any of the P4s could muster was a 142-m.p.h...
...elected by the group each year. When the two hours are up, the discussion is ended and the subject deferred until the next time--and the time after that, and the time after that. The entire group is almost never present, and at least once the chairman could not muster a quorom. The meetings, David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences and a member last year, recalls, "were just dreadful. But then virtually all meetings...