Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mary King, the shop steward who led the dining workers at the meeting, said Sunday that although the proposal involves no direct layoffs, she does not believe they can avoid layoffs because the other shifts are already full...
Luther Regin '76 and Neva Seidman '78 said yesterday that they are distributing a petition against the plan that they drew up with Mary King, shop steward for Local Union 26 in Adams House...
...Peanuts has long twitted such current topics as alienation and sexism. But over the years Li'l Abner began spouting right-wing boilerplate, and Dogpatch has degenerated into a flaccid strip of fools. Kelly died in 1973; his widow Selby, who struggled admirably to keep Pogo going, shut shop last year. As for Peanuts, Schulz's kids are still too wrapped up in security blankets and warm puppies to say much about the pressure of events...
...FDIC insures deposits of up to $40,000 a customer in nearly all the nation's banks. It usually does not go into action until a bank either has failed or is precariously close to it. Rather than paying out money itself to depositors, the FDIC will shop around for a solvent bank that can take over the failing one and merely switch names over the doors, sometimes lending money to the takeover bank or indemnifying it against losses. FDIC loans smoothed the 1974 bailouts of New York's Franklin National Bank and San Diego...
Until a goodly swatch of Forman's writing is actually published, that assertion lacks underpinning. What Rowse does show beyond question is that Forman was an invaluable eyewitness to his superstitious yet brilliant era. Born in 1552, the self-educated country bumpkin who set up shop in London as an astrologer and unlicensed doctor soon became a kind of lay analyst to a cross-section of his society. Titled ladies, including the Countess of Essex and Somerset, consulted him. So did churchmen, merchants, seafarers, servants and prostitutes. A grandson of Thomas More was one of his clients, as were...