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Word: supervisor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children to their present two. Besides that, says Dawn, "we budgeted the food shopping so that no snacks, no beer and especially no McDonald's are on the list." Even so, they could not meet the payments if Patrick did not collect frequent overtime pay in his job as supervisor of a record company warehouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing: It's Outasight | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

Beer cans and candy wrappers disfigure many mountain paths. Sounds familiar to the city pierce the silence. "I can't understand these people with their big mobile homes with generators and all the stuff," lamented Hal Stein, a construction company supervisor from Huntington Beach, Calif., during a visit to Yosemite. "They come up here, watch TV with a beer in their hand, look out the window and say, 'Ain't it pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes Summer: Bumper to Bumper In the Wilderness | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...fire alarms that emptied Widener Library Tuesday afternoon were probably caused by a fan blowing on a heat detector, Robbie Mesheau, a Buildings and Grounds fire equipment supervisor, said yesterday...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: False Alarms Empty Widener; Fan Cited As Culprit | 7/1/1977 | See Source »

...ultimate weapon of any hunt in the wilderness is, of course, the bloodhound. Sammy Joe Chapman, chief supervisor of the Brushy Mountain prison kennels, had only two fully trained hounds available for the forest searches: Sandy and Little Red. The other nine were still in training. Consequently the FBI brought in its own pack of bloodhounds. But when the feds gave their dogs some convicts' garments to sniff, just like they do in the movies, the locals scoffed. "Pure Hollywood," said one. Chapman put his dogs in pursuit by taking them to a single fresh track that gave them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: How the Mountain Men Did It | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...then open to buy up the holdings and rights of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique, a bankrupt French company that had tried-under the guidance of Ferdinand de Lesseps, supervisor of the Suez Canal project-to trench the 50 miles between the seas. By the time the C.U.C.I. folded in 1889, it had spent $287 million dollars and the lives of some 20,000 Frenchmen and Chinese, Irish and West Indian laborers. The chief killers, as generations of schoolchildren have been told, were malaria and yellow fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Ditch in Time | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

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