Word: supervisoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Africa, tribal priestesses once braided their hair as a symbol of their religious powers, and warriors plaited prior to battle. Modern-day American braiders have different motives. "It means black pride to me," says Clarence Dyas, a Los Angeles community relations supervisor. "Cats on the street used to look at a fellow strange if he braided his hair, but now everyone knows what it means." Other male braid buffs adopt the style for convenience. Explains Ray Allen, stylist at Soul Scissors, a Los Angeles black barbershop: "Braids are neater and a guy is more together in his appearance...
Another expert, Mortimer Goldberg, technical operations supervisor for CBS Radio, says that such a malfunction on an original recording would not create an overriding steady tone. "I've been working with tape recorders for 23 years and I've never heard the audio completely replaced by a solid tone," he reports. This would happen only during a rerecording, he says. Such a tone could be deliberately created with an audio signal generator (a device used to inject a desired tone to test or adjust audio circuits), but this could be easily distinguished, he explains, from the sound generated...
Mary Rowe, special assistant for women and work at MIT, described her duties as an ombudsperson for both women and men employees of MIT. "The greatest problem we have the abysmal lack of feedback between secretary and supervisor," she asserted. The supervisor, who is supposed to meet with secretaries every six months to hear complaints, "does no more than leave her week's paycheck on the desk and leave," she said...
...Moreover, not even a qualified man with the nerve and skill of the Jackal would be enough. He would also have to be willing to leave himself open to criminal charges of tampering with evidence. "Whoever would do that would have to be crazy," says Mortimer Goldberg, technical operations supervisor at CBS Radio. In an Administration where apparently no skulduggery has been safe from exposure, it is more than likely that sooner or later the man's name would be leaked...
...refusing to turn over the confidential psychiatric file of a prisoner-patient to the warden. Edward F. Roberts, correctional officer at Raiford State Prison in Florida-who testified before a congressional committee that he was forced out of his job because he refused to go along with his supervisor's credo that "a convict is the lowest thing on earth...