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Recording technician, Boston Symphony Orchestra...
LENIN HAS already said it--and I have increased the figure to mean more for my country--Lenin said that a professional, a technician, was worth 10 communists; I say 50, or 80 socialists. I am a socialist. It hurts my companeros that I say this, so why do I say it? Because I have lived during the politicization of a university, which can be carried to such an extreme that a student forgets his first responsibility. But a contemporary society requires a high technical capability from the revolutionaries--both to perform and to teach. In this way, the university...
...buying high, we are paying the high salaries of the technician, the clerk and the worker in the industrialized countries. Because our primary resources are in the hands of foreign capital, we ignore marketing strategies, we don't set prices or levels of production. We have had this experience with copper and you have had it with...
...border guard risking his life daily in the war against drugs and contraband? A Veterans Administration nurse laboring to restore the nation's Viet Nam wounded to health? The Forest Service fire fighter breathing smoke in Oregon and California at this very hour? A cancer researcher? The FDA technician whose revelations on thalidomide saved untold numbers of unborn babies from hideous disfigurement? The clerk who dispatches a Social Security payment to a senior citizen in your own family? Which of these bureaucrats would you trim from the federal payroll...
...career has been punctuated by intermittent "retirements" ever since she turned her back on a budding future as a registered lab technician in Maryland and took off for acting school in New York City. "I was marvelous. I had enormous breasts which started here," she says, pointing to her neck...