Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...society's structure is needed to bring about a more meaningful work, commumity and family experience. Workers, he believes, need to have more control over what is produced and which technologies are used. "We need worker participation in all levels of the production process, including real changes on the shop floor," he says...
...second element is a structure which includes: a union management committee which controls and sanctions experimentation and change, and committees at a number of other levels--at the top, at the middle--management level, and in each department where they are made up of shop stewards, managers and other workers...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation uncovered the Goody scam through one of its now glamorous "sting" operations. The FBI probe started three years ago, when a strike force opened a record shop in Westbury, Long Island, with agents posing as owners and employees. A total of more than 200,000 cloned tapes worth millions were eventually involved. Most of the fakes were sound tracks of the movies Grease and Saturday Night Fever. Other popular copies included hits by Pop Stars Billy Joel, Olivia Newton-John and Paul McCartney...
...world. And yet it was such a dramatically and symbolically delicious moment that Americans erupted briefly in spontaneous, childlike gladness. The very innocence of the conquest made it sweetly uncomplicated and morally unimpeachable. The nation indulged in small orgies of flag waving and anthem singing. At a Stop & Shop supermarket in Cambridge, Mass., the p.a. system suddenly blurted that the U.S. hockey team had beaten the Soviets. The store erupted as bags of cookies, paper towels and anything else handy were tossed into the air with pandemonious cheering. One psychiatrist reported his patients' telling him how, for days, tears...
Americans have a friskily self-destructive habit of turning even their best impulses into junk and kitsch; a Beverly Hills hair salon lately had eight models in tank tops and khaki trousers parading around the shop carrying flags and sporting new "military" hair styles. The entrepreneur turns militarism into a profitable fad. Love of country, by such associations, comes to seem vaguely sick and stupid...