Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answered a Sunday newspaper ad for college students placed by a chain of stationery stores and found that by 10 a.m. on Monday there were no further openings. She went to an employment agency that offered a $95-a-week switchboard job (for which she would have had to pay a $133 finder's fee), but that job never opened up. "I went to Morrisania Hospital because I heard they were hiring, but they told me there was nobody to interview me and they would contact me," she says. "I went back two weeks later, but nothing was available...
When the Senate Watergate hearings pre-empted daytime serials last spring, local stations were flooded with protest calls. By last week, when the hearings recessed, viewers were demonstrating a change of heart. In Minneapolis, for example, the switchboard of WCCO-TV blazed indignantly when people tuning in for Watergate found a baseball game instead. Forging ahead of the soaps and game shows, Watergate topped all daytime rivals in the latest Nielsen ratings...
...search for more bodies continued, frightened parents from round the country telephoned the Houston police switchboard, supplying descriptions of lost or runaway children. Police began the difficult task of identifying the victims, drawing on Brooks' and Henley's recollections, analyzing the remains, and sifting through thick files on missing youngsters. More than 5,000 minors are annually reported missing in the Houston area. Because of the decomposition of the bodies, only two positive identifications had been made by week's end, and police were uncertain whether they would ever be able to name all the victims...
...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission set a precedent this year in this area when it settled a case of sex discrimination brought against AT&T. The EEOC not only insisted that the phone company set goals for giving women management and line repair jobs, but also for making men switchboard operators, a once-respectable, starting clerical job which became a low-paying dead-end position when taken over by women
When Lisa, on full scholarship, applied for the job with the company, she had only the single-minded intention of earning some money. She was hired as an editorial assistant, i.e. a switchboard operator and typist...