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...page study of longshore practices in New York, the Labor Department said this summer that reduction of the working force was essential, but that "while management must be permitted to introduce new technology and reap its benefits through better manpower utilization, the protection afforded to disadvantaged employees... must be both equitable and substantial...
...nobody expects mothers going through natural childbirth to be martyrs. St. Mary's Dr. Carl Dreyer tells all natural-childbirth mothers in the delivery room: "Any time this ceases to be fun, we can give you gas." But a surprising number never ask for it, prefer instead to reap the psychological benefits of wide-awake participation in their baby's birth. "It is common for a natural-childbirth mother right after birth to talk about having another baby," says Sister Charitas, "but I have never known a mother who had a general anesthetic to mention having another baby...
...during the week and surprised no one by voting against the Johnson Administration's poverty bill. He was already on record in a scathing Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee minority report, drafted in tandem with Texas Republican John Tower that labeled the poverty bill "an attempt to reap political rewards," and he accused Johnson of trying to sell "almost exact replicas of programs that were tried by the New Deal during the Depression...
...apparent rebuttal to recent remarks by Woodrow Wilson Sayre, the associate professor of philosophy who was denied tenure by Tufts, Pusey contended that undergraduates reap important benefits from being taught by great scholars who are active on all levels of university life...
...cobras that drop in for dinner. There is also a viper called the Two-Step-it bites you, you take two steps and die. Bees the size of shuttlecocks kamikaze across the steaming landscape, and Cambodian cockroaches get so big they almost block traffic. Noonday temperature at Siem-reap, the site of Angkor Wat, averages 130°, and dysentery is so prevalent that it has given rise to a style of half-trot called "the Cambodian canter...