Word: supervisors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Never before had Italy's bureaucracy seemed so diligent, so strangely un-Italian. Government offices were positively jammed with civil servants, so many, in fact, that there was not enough furniture-or enough work-to go around. One frustrated supervisor in the general post office in Rome finally informed his standing army of employees: "Tomorrow everyone will have a chair and a desk. For too many years, we've been working with too few people. Now everything has changed...
...Another supervisor, the union charged, told his workers that there would be layoffs. "They threatened people with their job security, which is funny because they don't have any anyway," Rondeau said...
Margaret Barr, kitchen supervisor at the Kennedy Elementary School, said recently the number of lunches served has decreased by 200--or one-third of the total--from the 1980-81 school year to the current semester. Of the 400 lunches still being served, only 25 percent are paid lunches, she added...
...Milson. He not only works for the Foreign Office, but he knew Ludley at school years earlier. Best of all, he has just received an unexpected invitation from Ludley's wife to visit them at their home, the Villa Golitsyn in Nice. After being briefed by a grateful supervisor, Milson eagerly sets out to trick his host into a confession...
...much of Orlando's appeal lies in the sheer playfulness with which Sellars has approached it. Where the original staging calls for Zoroastro the magician to conjure up a fountain to hide a furtive lover, Sellar's project supervisor summons up a drinking fountain, from which Angelica casually takes a sip. In the conclusion of the original, when Zoroastro calls for a potion, he receives it from the claws of an eagle descending out of the sky. Sellars's Zoroastro receives his potion in the claws of The Eagle--the Apollo 11 lunar module, that is. (In both cases...