Word: newark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elizabeth, N.J. Never married, she lived at home until her mother's death in 1979. She was a drug user and in 1983 lost her job because of poor attendance. She lived off and on with her sisters but fought with them, and was kicked out of a Newark shelter because of disruptive behavior...
While sparring with the union, Continental executives have launched an all- out campaign to win back customers. The airline has begun keeping on call at the Newark, Denver and Houston airports "hot spares" -- fueled-up planes with standby crews ready to step in if another jet develops difficulties that prevent its takeoff. The airline is spending $60 million this year on employee training. Customers receive cash rebates of $10 to $50 for filling out "report cards" grading the carrier's performance. Capping these efforts is an advertising blitz featuring full-page confessionals in major publications. "We grew so fast that...
...plan has also earned him the support ofBlack mayors from across the nation, includingSharpe James of Newark and Harold Washington ofChicago, who have recently joined the Jacksonbandwagon...
...setting is a New Hampshire college that resembles Bennington, the 23-year-old author's expensive alma mater. Ellis is proof that a best-selling writer can be downbeat as long as he is upscale. Had his subject been the degrading activities of East Los Angeles Chicanos or Newark blacks, he would have been branded an unfeeling racist and would have forfeited the privilege of being seen by millions on the Today show...
When Americans report to work each day, many of them encounter hazards as endemic to the job as lunch pails and the morning coffee break. In July OSHA penalized Chrysler, alleging that workers at a Newark, Del., assembly plant were exposed to high levels of arsenic and lead in the paint and soldering areas. (The company plans to pay the $1.6 million fine.) In Chicago, ten of the 5,000 workers who have helped build the so-called Deep Tunnel project, which has created 50 miles of underground passageways for flood and sewage control, have died in construction accidents since...