Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, peace and prosperity reigned over the vast borough. Middle class values pursued in middle class ways provided a standard ethos uniting people of different ethnic origins, income levels and political persuasions. Brooklyn has absorbed masses of immigrants through the years, starting with the Russian and Polish Jews who fled the poverty and anti-Semitism of their homelands. This group in turn absorbed the immigrants who followed them from Europe and Asia with nary an intolerant word. But to this group--by tradition overwhelmingly liberal, Democratic, tolerant--the most recent population influx is a horse of a different color...
...some companies began to hire Hispanics, however, they also began a policy of replacing non-immigrants with immigrants at a lower wage, according to Santiago. Hispanic workers were willing to take lower pay for the same job, having few alternatives, Santiago says. Unions were lax in protecting the wage standard of Hispanics. Exploitation of the workers resulted as it had in previous years with other immigrant communities, he says...
According to Trillo, for many Hispanics seeing friends, hearing the kind of music they like, and going to stores where they can buy the foods they are accustomed to is more important than upgrading their living standard by moving away from Washington Elms Newtowne Court to a smaller, newer project...
...which include a feed mill, packing house and rendering plant -with "enough left over to supply a good part of the city of Bartow [pop. 12,000] with all the natural gas it needs." The commercial possibilities appear to intrigue United Technologies Corp. (annual sales: $5.2 billion). Its Hamilton-Standard division formed a joint venture with Kaplan to research the process and win the Washington grant...
Arena does not like the idea of his former employer muscling in. Says he: "I told Carter Hawley their timing was inappropriate, but they kept pushing." The day the C.H.H. bid was announced, Field filed a suit charging that the merger would violate antitrust law, a standard move in takeover battles. Carter Hawley seems determined to persist, to the point of upping its bid if necessary. Analysts see no way Field can ward off an eventual merger -if not with C.H.H., then with any one of several other big department store companies...