Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense, then he is also the union leader extraordinaire. "My problems are like a big family. I spend most of my time settling personality clashes and personal problems," he said. But he also plays a cagey game with city hall. Take a recent dispute over route changes to handle peak periods better: "If the city wants route changes, then we'll give them to it. But we want something in return; our production increased 10 per cent last year and 9 per cent the year before that. We are the only municipal department that can show productivity, and they...
...single woman, now 86, I have enjoyed my long career as an artist-writer too much even to consider becoming a housewife. Luckily I began at a time when the market for illustrations was at its peak. By 1908 six of my cover designs had appeared on The Saturday Evening Post, but since I was paid only $60 each-a fraction of what the male artists received-I quit. When the market folded, due to the Depression, I switched to writing. My many books have sold well and long. Experience has led to this conclusion: Women who want to marry...
...pattern of discrimination does not stop at the executive suite. Indeed, the lack of women in skilled jobs and middle management almost guarantees that few will make it to the peak. At California's Pacific Gas & Electric, for example, 94% of women employees are clerks and secretaries. Manhattan's Avon Products Inc., which employs women for half of its 10,000 jobs in North America, has promoted only 14 of them to managerial ranks and none to vice presidents or higher. Boston's Raytheon Co. has been engaged in a two-year federal court action over charges...
...Morale is at a peak over here," Eliot athletic secretary Mark Davis commented last night. "We have mass participation in all sports. It's really sort of peculiar," he said...
Nanking was raped by the Japanese in 1937, torn from the Nationalists by Mao Tse-tung's Communists in 1949, and racked by some of the bloodiest clashes between Red Guard fanatics and factory workers that occurred anywhere in China during the peak of the Cultural Revolution in 1967. Today it is slower, far less cosmopolitan, and a bit more relaxed and friendly than dour Peking or supercharged Shanghai. The Communist regime has turned the city into an industrial hub, but the factories are mercifully screened from view by groves of trees. TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter, who was permitted...