Word: shifts
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...guard, Pierre R. Voss, had been working for just two days after returning from leave necessitated by a back injury. Two University Health Services doctors had recommended Voss come back to work on light duty, but instead he was placed on the "November shift," a chemistry laboratory area patrol which guards say requires an unusual amount of walking...
...guard said that while he strained his back and hurt his knee in the fall, he was not seriously hurt. Voss said he thinks his assignment to the November shift constitutes harassment and is an attempt to get him to quit...
Voss will resume work later this week. He said he has been assigned to the same shift, although he has asked to be put somewhere else...
Manager of Operations for Security Robert J. Dowling said yesterday that assigning Voss to the November shifts is appropriate because it no more difficult than any other shift...
Ultimately, the most dramatic policy shift could be the changing view of dams, long the symbol of man's dominion over nature. They are now seen by some as a testament to man's hubris -- redirecting rivers, flooding dry lands and evicting wildlife. For years, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission paid little or no attention to environmental issues as it relicensed dams. Now it is faced with a record number of relicensing applications -- 230 dams on 59 river basins -- and is using this unique opportunity to respond to pent-up ecological concerns, particularly the needs of fish. Many...