Word: peixoto
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...Peixoto and Deners--Landmark...
...workers who gave the computer its name, who call it simply "the machine," its advent is not as impressive as it is for management. Leyla Reddy, a clerk, says "at first it was fun because it was something different," and Conceicao A. Peixoto, who works in the payroll office, says that the work became "very interesting" when the computer came in last year. By now, however, the bloom has come off the rose; even though the machine has splintered the time needed to track down an error in the payroll from days to smithereens of seconds, it has lost...
...mistake, however, to parallel the difference between Brown-Beasley and the young workers Peixoto and Reddy to the relationship of management to the 75 or so clerical workers on the third floor of Holyoke Center. As Brown-Beasley says, "lines are not so clearly drawn." The employees do not all view themselves as a distinct and subordinate class, toiling in tedium for an employer whose interests are not their own. The unpopularity of that view is demonstrated by the difficulty District 65, a clerical and technical workers' union, has had organizing in Cambridge. For the people who work...
...switch has helped. When the campaign started, Public Works Minister Ernani do Amaral Peixoto, appointed by Kubitschek's Social Democratic Party to coordinate Lott's candidacy, sadly reported to friends that "Lott is unelectable." Urged to expand his campaign itinerary, Candidate Quadros chuckled: "That's all right. Marshal Lott will visit places I can't visit myself, and win them for me." But by last week the lively new Lott was closing so fast that he had Brazilian political experts convinced that he was still solidly in the race...
When a torrential rain turned the crust of dust to gumbo, Brazil's officials gave up and retreated. Back to Rio went Finance Minister Sebastião Paes de Almeida, leaving behind an eight-man outpost. Public Works Minister Ernani do Amaral Peixoto sat in Rio signing documents datelined Brasilia and confidentially told visitors: "Officially, I'm in Brasilia." Of eleven Ministers who originally appeared, eight departed. After a quick ten-minute inaugural session, the Supreme Court recessed to June 30; the Senate, without furniture, recessed to June...