Word: shortly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...favorite public relations tactic is placing deceptive full page ads in major newspapers portraying growers as advocates for farm worker human rights and the union as a threat to worker liberty. These are the same human rights advocates who opposed toilets in the fields and abolition of the short-handled hoe, and fired thousands of workers for wearing union buttons and backing the UFW. Growers then mobilized well-heeled, professional strikebreaking outfits that surface whenever farm worker walkouts occur. Their services range from supplying hired guns to recruiting undocumented workers to be used as strikebreakers...
...degree, a broader, long-term political understanding is necessary. Change, at least in the U.S., comes painstakingly slowly, and thus, the long term perspective is critical. The members and staff of the UFW exemplify this understanding as they have never ceased to gage their efforts in not only the short, but also in the long term...
...good deal later Forman returned home with her two friends puffing breathlessly behind in pursuit. They were both humiliated by their performance but their embarrassment was short-lived. After a good laugh their proctor let them in on a well-kept secret,--they had just finished working out with one of the country's top female half-milers...
...afternoon during her first week at Harvard Johanna Forman invited a couple of guys from her dorm to join her on a short run. Expecting a leisurely jog along the banks of the Charles, they accepted. Somewhere between Harvard Yard and MIT they realized that when Forman said "run" she meant exactly that. Unfortunately the same couldn't be said for her idea of "short...
...containers of intermediate-level waste and 2 million 55-gallon drums of low-level waste. "Existing sites are going to fill up and the demand keeps increasing," warns Theodore Greenwood, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who served on a White House task force that examined the issued. In short, as Greenwood laments, "we badly need more sites...