Word: referred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such efforts fall well short of the alcoholic rehabilitation that business adopted 20 or 30 years ago. Often companies refer addicts whom they fire to clinics or rehabilitation centers, where prospects for total recovery are dim. Public clinics and centers in New York City, for example, tend to concentrate on the needs of ghetto youths whose addiction is linked to deprivation and despair. The environment is often harsh for older, middle-class addicts and adds to their difficulty in readjustment. Says Donald Mahoney, a spokesman for New York Telephone Co.: "Seventy-five percent of our alcoholics eventually return to work...
...booming away at the sand, concrete and steel fortresses on the east bank that form the Bar-Lev Line (see box, page 30). In one ten-day period, the Israeli air force is estimated to have dropped more bombs than did all combatants during the entire 1967 war. Israelis refer to it as the "war against the war of attrition...
Egyptian barrages are not as worrisome to Israeli troopers as the sudden single shell that can catch a man in the open, on his way to the kitchen or the latrine. Also worrisome are the "monkeys," as the moles refer to the camouflaged Egyptian snipers who perch in 60-ft. eucalyptus trees across the canal. At one fort, a sniper plinked away whenever an Israeli headed for a shower. The commander knew that artillery would be of little use; 105-mm. howitzers had been tried before, but only made the trees sway. Besides, the shells cost $85 apiece. One morning...
According to the oft-repeated Andean scenario of disaster, an earthquake jars loose a gigantic slice of glacier and rock from a jagged peak. The massive landslide tumbles into a lake beneath the summit, breaking its natural morainic dam. This, in turn, sets loose what the Peruvian peasants refer to with dread as a huayco-a wall of water, rock and mud that can bury entire villages in the valleys below. In 1797 a huayco killed 41,000 Ecuadorians and Peruvians; in 1939 another took the lives of 40,000 Chileans...
...have a Negro butler and maid." But then Felicia Bernstein (Felicia Montealegre that was) is from Chile, with a real knack for finding nonblack Latin American servants, not only for herself but for her friends. "The Bernsteins are so generous about it," says Wolfe, "that people refer to them as 'the Spic and Span Employment Agency,' with an easygoing ethnic humor, of course...