Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason to be afraid. Then they suggested to him that, when interrogated, he tell their officers he had been shot by his own comrades when he had refused to obey orders to move forward. Only then did the Khmer Rouge soldier allow himself to be taken to an aid station, where he became an object of great curiosity. One amazed government soldier remarked, 'If that had happened to any of us, we would have called for help the first...
...their eloquent list of the perquisites available to U.S. Senators, the highest paid legislators in the world? And in other cases, such influences may have been praiseworthy effects. If a pub debate about "Greatest Mass Killings" turned to the Guinness Book, its participants would learn that a Soviet radio station--source normally unknown to historical scholarship--once accused the Chinese People's Republic of killing 26.3 million people...
...seekers want to enlist in the armed forces that recruiters have raised admission standards, and the Air Force even turns down some men with master's degrees. All over the U.S. employers find they can fill jobs that pay only $2 or $2.25 an hour for gas station attendants, security guards, dishwashers. Those openings are often grabbed up by people who used to earn twice or three times as much. To get any job at all, some people are downplaying their talents and training, hoping to avoid the stigma of "overqualification." Marge Johnston, 49, of Berkeley, Calif, has been...
...comic who has built his career around the plaint, "I don't get no respect." Shortly after Rodney Dangerfield taped 31 days of material for New York Telephone's Dial-A-Joke, 170,000 Manhattan phones went dead because of a fire in the company switching station. No matter, really, because the New York Daily News, which was to run advertisements and a phone number for the feature, was shut down by a strike. Dangerfield remained calmly pessimistic through it all. Said the cut-off comic to his nightclub audience in Manhattan at week's end: "Today...
...should adjust to lead lives uncheapened by work they consider--beneath them. A liberal education can be a significant personal experience, Fisher says, but it cannot promise to give students "earthy vocational skills." What is more important than reconciling the disappointed college-graduate job-seeker to employment below his station is the "question of how we can take advantage of this great ability to educate people, how we can recognize this as a symptom of success," Fisher says. "The forces we're talking about are much greater than the recession. They're secular...