Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...migrant system has been perpetuated by mutually reinforcing factors: corporate agri-business interest in keeping an inflated migrant labor pool, in order to keep wages down and therefore labor costs relatively low (e.g., the total cost of field labor for lettuce comes to $.24 per head); oligopolistic practices of big business; government land granting history; and pricing and taxing policies. As important as any of these factors has been society's way of society instead of acknowledging migrants as members of the same society...
Highlights of the meet were all on the Crimson's side. Kevin O'Connell, captain of the team, broke the pool record in the individual medley race by two seconds as he recorded...
...third mark fell in the final event, the 400-yard freestyle relay, won by Malcolm Cooper, George Keim, Wes Raffle and Duncan Pyle. Cooper's leadoff split of 0:47 was a new pool record...
...turn out any given tonnage of steel, so fewer layoffs will be necessary, and mill bosses can guarantee employment to workers who have reached a certain seniority (20 years' service, the union has hinted). Bredhoff speculates that a lifetime-security plan could be funded by an industry-wide pool, providing paychecks even for workers whose employer goes out of business...
...these allusions, one of Mamet's favorite methods is basic eavesdropping; the cassette in his ear is continually recording the oddities of human speech. The most conspicuous piece of furniture in his new New York City apartment is a filing cabinet crammed with pages of dialogue overheard in pool halls, bars, elevators, Ping Pong parlors, gambling halls and every other stopping place in a brief, varied career...