Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not impress union leaders. "More time and money have been spent denying there's a problem than dealing with it," says Deborah Meyer, associate director for 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women. Labor and management in California agree on most of the remedies, according to Laura Stock of the Labor Occupational Health Program at the University of California, Berkeley. "The argument," she says, "seems to be about who has ultimate control of the workplace...
Computer manufacturers have responded to health concerns by shielding their products against radiation leakage and introducing tiltable models with anti- glare features. "When you look at the recommendations for how the screens should be designed, you find that most of the newer computer models already . have the improvements," Stock says. "The problem is that many of the VDTs that are being used in the workplace have been around for ten or 15 years...
...agencies in Nicaragua. But as the vehicles tried to cross the Mexican border from Laredo, Texas, last week, U.S. Customs officials insisted that the convoy drivers pledge not to violate the Administration's trade embargo by leaving their vehicles in Nicaragua. The drivers refused, claiming Nicaragua needed the rolling stock to transport children to hospitals and crops to market. After an eight-day stalemate, the convoy organizers decided to turn around and take their case directly to Washington, where they planned to lobby Congress and display samples of their humanitarian cargo across the street from the White House...
...memories of the October stock crash are fading, but in France aftershocks are still rumbling through the Paris Bourse. Investors were stunned by last week's revelation that $85 million of the $255 million in the reserve fund of the Association of French Stock Exchanges, a stockbrokers' group, had been gambled away on speculative investments. In the wake of the scandal, the president of the association, Xavier Dupont, and one of his top deputies, Philippe Cosserat, resigned...
...moment, the risk of a recession brought about by the global stock- market crash has receded substantially as business confidence and consumer spending have revived. Our economies have been growing at a healthy annual rate of 3%, and inflation is projected to stabilize over the next two years at about 3.75% on average. The debt crisis appears to have eased somewhat, and on the trade front, the U.S. has finally started to reduce its huge deficit...