Word: teamworks
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Perhaps the most striking characteristic of America's 184,000 coal miners is their intense loyalty to one another and their union. Some people explain that loyalty as an aboveground extension of the close teamwork that the miners must practice in dangerous subterranean mines; others say it is a result of facing common enemies-the coal companies and the Federal Government. Whatever the reason, when one union local walks off the job, others usually follow in sympathy...
...outdoor Saturday sessions will stress basic skills, fitness training, and small games, while the indoor midweek series offers coaching in fundamental skills and teamwork in the gymnasium. In addition, there will be a number of films shown concerning the game...
...moved from internal controls to long-range financial planning and finally, in 1972, to the international area. Away from work, Flavin is a devout Catholic who enjoys golf and skiing with his wife and two children. He is extremely popular with colleagues for his direct manner and insistence on "teamwork rather than the one-man approach"; most of all, though, they admire his ability to reduce hard business problems to their essentials...
...deep-water sailor's celestial navigation. Taking sextant sights on sun, moon or stars from the pitching deck of a small craft is difficult under the best of circumstances. Most skippers turn to a crew member to note the precise time of their measurements, and such teamwork allows ample room for error. With no one to note the time for his sights, Oxy's skipper will rely on a specially designed quartz chronometer built into the handle of his sextant...
...Michael Bennett, who may be a direct descendant of Terpsichore, has added to the dance vocabulary of the U.S. musical. He has made dance a central theme as well as a supremely exhilarating act. The chorus line is his symbol of mass anonymity: It is also his symbol of teamwork, with the emphasis equally distributed between team and work. Bennett distills one more element. Behind the faceless mass, there is a face; behind the dazzling precision of the dance, there is a terrifying vulnerability, not the false step of a foot but the crippling fall of a psyche...