Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only working three days a week because of the power cuts, and it takes me nearly that long to get up and back from Chertsey," said one irate commuter. "By the time I get home, the telly's gone off." (All TV stations have been ordered to sign off at 10:30 p.m.) The trainmen, who have refused to work overtime and Sundays for the past five weeks, walked out after the government threatened disciplinary pay cuts for men engaged in 'the job action. The trainmen have said they will stage another one-day strike this week...
...more than their alloted share of electricity are permitted to remain open. All over London last week, gaslamps and candles lighted counters as shoppers thronged to take advantage of new year's sales. One furrier's shop on King's Road put up a hand-lettered sign reading WE ARE OPEN SIX DAYS A WEEK-BY CANDLE POWER, BATTERY POWER AND WILL POWER...
Professors Oscar Handlin and Donald Fleming sign a petition insisting that Derek Bok is, in fact, neither of them. "Whoever he is, he is a gosh-darned prudent administrator," Fleming says, "but whoever Derek C. Bok may be, he is certainly...
Upward March. The measure, which the President is expected to sign, constitutes the fifth such boost in the past five years. During that time, monthly benefits for the nation's 29 million recipients have climbed by more than 70%. The main reason for granting the hikes, of course, has been to keep benefits received by the aged, the disabled, dependents and survivors of deceased workers ahead of the runaway pace of prices. Benefits are certain to continue their upward march because starting next year an escalator clause already approved by Congress will increase payments automatically as living costs rise...
...second book on the subject, Hakozaki is also designing a special manual for the art of brush writing, which poses particular problems for lefthanded schoolchildren. Though Hakozaki sees a "long uphill battle" ahead for his movement, there are indications that the prejudice against lefthanders is beginning to ease. One sign of progress is a record that has become one of Japan's top ten hits. Its title: My Boy Friend Is a Lefty...