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THERE HAVE always been professions in which low pay, bad work conditions and rapid job turnover have made sure that employers won't be bothered by any trouble-making union organizers. Amongst secretaries and waitresses, anyone who sticks her neck out will most likely get her head cut off. There's always plenty more heads where that came from. Furthermore, when it looks like most of the employees in a given profession would leap at the next chance to get out altogether, unions are naturally discouraged from trying to organize...
...radio telescopes as measuring instruments and signals from distant quasars (see following story) as benchmarks-shows that there has been relative motion of up to 20 cm. (8 in.) in only three years between the opposing plates just south of the San Gabriel mountains. That motion, which may be rapid by San Andreas standards, also mystifies the researchers. Says Caltech's Peter MacDoran, who has been directing these measurements. "What we need is a nice, big nondestructive earthquake that we can intensely study. Then maybe all these puzzling pieces would fit together...
...songs that ever made the rise to fame despite a more-than-seven-minute duration), but the song stands out as an example of Joel's tremendous talent as a vocalist/instrumentalist/composer. From the slow, ballad-like start to the well-rhythmed second section, to the rapid, light-rock middle of the song, Joel controls all the elements of his music as he reminisces about high-school days. Amidst a superb clarinet melody and the fantastic saxophone that Richie Cannata always adds to Billy Joel's music, "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" remains brilliant...
...policy of open admissions, which guaranteed a place in one of the CUNY colleges to anyone graduating from a New York City public high school. Since an eighth grade reading level and little else was required to graduate from most city high schools, this policy brought on a rapid and large-scale decline in the quality of students in CUNY and in the quality of a CUNY education itself. Professors who could have been spending their time communicating the wonders of literature to their students now had to teach kids the alphabet and basic spelling...
...reason for the rapid proliferation of PCP is that the drug is cheap and available. For $100, a handy amateur can manufacture PCP worth $100,000 on the street...