Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minute-steak lunch, Americans beat a hasty retreat?"chuckling in amazement," says a shopkeeper on Tokyo's Ginza. Says a veteran tourist who is staying at Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, where the cheapest room for two is $80 a night: "It's just plain scandalous. I never thought I'd see the day when the greenback would turn into Mickey Mouse money. It really hurts my pride as an American...
Kenyatta could also be brutal in dealing with official misbehavior?even other people's corruption, if he thought it excessive. Two years ago, he summoned an assistant minister to his office. "Come sit by me, close," said Kenyatta. "Now what is your name...
Women, who made up 28.1% of the work force in 1947, now account for 41.9%. By 1976 fewer than 16% of them had joined unions. Until recently, many women expected to work only four or five years; typically, they thought that the higher wages a union might win over the long run would not compensate them for income lost during strikes. Career-minded women, like white-collar workers generally, tend to identify with management, or at least to believe they have more in common with their bosses than with the stereotyped hardhat. Says Fred Kroll, president of the Brotherhood...
Wurf's foghorn voice offers even more hope. In the 14 years that he has been president of the AFSCME, he has quadrupled its membership to just over 1 million, and signed up people thought to be particularly difficult to organize: white-collar workers, women, blacks. His main pitch: an insistence that union membership is the passport not just to better pay but also to "dignity" for workers who, he contends, were long "at the mercy of irresponsible politicians...
...Milne's classic, Piglet was left virtually speechless by his run-in with what he thought was the mysterious Heffalump. Now astronomers can share his bafflement as they grope for words to describe their own strange encounter. Off in the distant heavens, among a grouping of stars that the ancients called Cygnus (the Swan), they seem to have found a celestial version of a Heffalump. It is a cosmic beast of such enormous gravity that it appears to be tugging, stretching and, indeed, slowly gobbling up its giant companion, a massive star more than 20 times the size...