Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until a 1975 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit, Coors employees included only 7 percent women, 6 percent Chicanos and three percent Blacks. Female and elderly workers have charged their employer harassment, discrimination, and attempts to drive them out of the company by giving them particularly strenuous tasks and schedules. Unfair demands included requiring them to work back-to-back shifts, graveyard shifts and in some instances 14 days...
...minute, maybe. Meanwhile, it is worth pointing out that some strenuous modification of that lobby styling session has produced, over the past 15 < years, some of the best clothes there are, some of the most adventurous anyone has ever done. These are clothes that defy convention by flowing all around it, like so many pieces of whole cloth finding fresh form in the controlled accident of the fall, making the body under them feel as loose and free as the fabric. He has even experimented with molding the body underneath. Other designers working the same territory might just market...
...curtail the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars, if that would mean a deal with the Soviet Union to reduce nuclear weapons? The Reagan Administration last week began a strenuous effort to explain why it is reluctant to do so: because the Soviets began missile- defense research long before the U.S. did, and may have a large lead...
...indeed become a nation of believers in the virtues of exercise, but a new study from the Federal Government reports that most citizens confine their practice to nothing more strenuous than pushing a shopping cart around a supermarket on Saturday morning or shoveling down a pint of ice cream while doing laps between the kitchen and the TV set. "There are trends toward improvement," declares Dr. Michael McGinnis, director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "The great majority know the importance of fitness. But they have not taken...
...January, former U.S. Army Private Walter Kempthorne told the Wiesenthal Center that in July 1945, he ran across a red-faced, sweating German in the custody of U.S. Army soldiers at a camp near the German town of Trier. Why, Kempthorne asked, was the man being put through such strenuous exertions? "We're getting him in shape to be hung," replied one of the guards. "This here is Mengele, the bastard that sterilized 3,000 women in Auschwitz...