Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just get so tired that it's hard to keep looking for work. I don't think I could cope with it myself. I think it would destroy me. Sometimes I forgot for a second that I was getting out Sunday, and it hit me like a punch in the stomach to think of being trapped like this...
...Track Betting Corp., which in the four months of its operation has collected about $30 million in what used to be the wages of sin, is considering a device, developed by Video Information Systems Inc., that would presumably allow bettors to tune in the race at home and punch their bets by electronic code on the buttons of the converter...
...toilet only once in four days when I absolutely insisted on it." Then Numeiry put the onus for any breakdown in relations on the Russians. "If they want to choose that path, we will have no alternative," Numeiry said-which could mean he may beat the Russians to the punch by expelling the advisers before the Kremlin could order them to return home...
Work Credit. Messerschmitt's system is fairly typical. Some 7,000 employees may punch in at any time between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. and leave between 3:45 p.m. and 6 p.m. They still must put in an average of 42½ hours and work five days a week, but in any month they also have the option of working ten extra hours, building up a credit they can draw on for additional free time the next month, or putting in ten fewer hours and making them up the following month...
...workers choose to exercise their freedom is an intriguing study in psychology. White-collar workers tend to punch in late and work late; factory men usually come early and leave early. The experiment has attracted the attention of the German government, which allows most of the 1,000 employees of the Transport Ministry to arrive and leave within two-hour margins. The Bonn Cabinet will review results and decide whether to extend staggered working hours throughout the government. Unions are paying attention too. They are asking for a 2% raise for workers on staggered hours, arguing that it is justifiable...