Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Conway, the office closed down the early Sunday and Monday morning shifts because operators received the fewest number of calls then--only 30 calls in seven and one-half hours, compared with more that 4500 calls received on 15-hour weekdays. In the past, one operator has covered each late shift, he added...
...couldn't get any part-time help [for this particular shift]," Conway said. People are reluctant to take the job because they know that only full-time help will be employed over the summer, he added...
Change is rarely sudden on the Supreme Court. Administrations may shift overnight, and with them national policy...
...protect his small kingdom by building strong alliances. Yet the maneuver also deepened divisions within the Arab world. Syria and Libya violently denounced Jordan's decision, while moderate states like Saudi Arabia quietly clucked disapproval. Syrian President Hafez Assad most fears a realignment among Arab nations that would shift power away from Damascus and create a new atmosphere of tolerance in the Arab community for Egypt's separate peace with Israel. "This is a treacherous stab in the back of the Arab struggle and an open plot against the Palestinian cause," said Syria's government-controlled newspaper...
...rewarded American women immediately. Defense plants provided them with their first paychecks and a chance to get out of the house. Rosie the Riveter became an overnight symbol of competence and independence, though not all women finished work looking like Goldie Hawn in Swing Shift. Peggy Terry, who loaded shells at a plant in Viola, Ky., recalls that the tetryl in explosives turned skin, hair and eyeballs orange: "The only thing we worried about," she says, "was other women thinking we had dyed our hair." Evelyn Fraser, a former WAC captain in Europe, had more somber preoccupations: "The shocking thing...