Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Money Player is scandalous. When he was not involved in grand or petty larceny, the self-styled "Bad Boy of Table Tennis" could fill his wallet and his mouth by legitimate means. At his peak, Reisman was the best hard-racket man in the world. Today, at 44, he can be beaten only by players using trick spins off the modern soft-sponge paddle. As the champ says, his kind of Ping Pong is entirely unlike the metronomic rec-room game familiar to most Americans. World-class players can propel the ball at speeds exceeding 100 m.p.h.; facing them across...
...harvest); (4) there is a minimum of dead time (when crops aren't ready or transportation is slow); (5) the laborer works a 6 day week, 50 weeks a year; and (6) the worker is skilled enough and fast enough to earn as much as $35 per day at peak season in late summer, then, and only then, might yearly earnings be as high as $7000 or $8000 per year. Of course, the work load and pace would be grueling and the likelihood is almost negligible that all of the necessary conditions would coincide for any length of time. Even...
...record $77 billion, up 32 per cent over the 1972 figure of $5.8 billion. Bureau of the Census figures for California published in 1972 indicate that (1) lettuce was an $850 million crop; (2) Salinas lettuce companies control 49 per cent of the California-Arizona lettuce market during peak seasons and (3) 38 Salinas growers control 98 per cent of all lettuce production. This same document reports that 6.1 per cent of California farms own 78.6 per cent and 3.8 per cent own 68.8 per cent of the state's agricultural land; 8.6 per cent of California growers...
Moreover, many of the UFW's own regulations cut the working time of the farmworkers. For example, the UFW has prevented pickers from working overtime during peak harvest seasons. Teen-age children of the farmworkers had formerly found summer employment in the fields, but the UFW no longer allowed this. The union also ordered periodic slowdowns which lowered the pay of workers mainly dependent of piece rates...
Leaders of the Harvard-Radcliffe Boycott Support Committee said Saturday night they were pleased with the numbers of customers who refused to cross the picket lines. Starting this week, the committee plans to picket the store Friday nights, Saturday afternoons and Saturday nights--the store's peak selling hours...