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Philip Maidel is still angry. After his job as a supervisor in the transportation department of the Long Beach, California, naval shipyards disappeared in 1989, he bypassed a chance for a secure civil service post because he trusted promises of higher pay and equal job stability from McDonnell Douglas. The aircraft builder's recruiters "wined us, they dined us, they had a big film presentation," Maidel fumes. "They really put on the dog that you were part of the company for no less than 10 years. Three years later, I'm standing on the sidewalk...
...ECAC Supervisor of Hockey Officials Robert M. Quinn said he did not think that the NHL would pull any ECAC referees away from their duties...
...When you have to tunnel underneath and disruptthe river, you disrupt the watershed," said TomMalcolm, public information supervisor for theCentral Artery/Tunnel project...
Outside, I realized that I found the Au Bon Pain's supervisor's behavior appropriate not because the kids were obnoxious, but because I assumed they were up to no good. Black, inner-city kids--obviously not well-groomed Harvard students. And the fact that the manager was a minority only served as a buffer against looking at my own racism...
...self-effacing that the world nearly missed it. The landmark experiment was reported by Jerry Hall at a meeting of the American Fertility Society in Montreal three weeks ago. Afterward, colleagues came up to congratulate him and say "Nice job." Others voted to give his paper, written with his supervisor, Dr. Robert Stillman, the conference's first prize. But nobody seemed to want to pursue the one fact that made his little experiment -- in which he started with 17 microscopic embryos and multiplied them like the Bible's loaves and fishes into 48 -- different from anything that had preceded...