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Word: poling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thousands who have already left the industry. "I want to have a job eight, ten, 15 years from now," said Larry Sandridge, 29, a polisher at Cadillac's Clark Avenue plant in Detroit for the past eight years. "I'm on the bottom of the totem pole. If we don't get job security now, I'm going to be pushed off." Concurs fellow Assembly Line Worker Jack Stewart, 30: "If you don't have that job, a wage increase isn't going to do you any good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor's Hard Day's Night | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

Before its mutilation, the waist-high robotic figure was covered with toys and other objects, the ski-pole skeleton held together by brightly colored telephone wire. Its face was an old cartoon-character lunchbox, its torso a discarded radio, its hands giant ski gloves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junk Sculpture Decorates Garden St. | 9/29/1984 | See Source »

Sargent has a longtime interest in beautifying the Quad area. He once hung a mobile made of mylar, wrapping paper and yarn from a telephone pole near the Quad on Garden Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junk Sculpture Decorates Garden St. | 9/29/1984 | See Source »

...followed its natural cycle," Sargent noted philosophically. Only the ski-pole skeleton and greedy hands are left

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junk Sculpture Decorates Garden St. | 9/29/1984 | See Source »

...problems stem not from too liberal candidates, but rather from the Republican leadership's drift toward the right. They say the party's fortunes reached a nadir under the leadership of the likes of Gordon Nelson, whom Sears describes as "not only in right field but beyond the foul pole...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Why the Democrats Rule the State | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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