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...evil people spend their lives working within the Washington system--lobbying, writing legislation, consulting, drafting regulations, and generally attending a lot of boozy receptions. At once victims of their environment and staunch defenders of the red tape that puts food on their tables, the journeyman laborers of government toil in virtual anonymity...
...take heart Liz, because your efforts and those of Harvard's 30 other student-managers really are appreciated--at least by those who toil in Dillon field house and 60 Boylston St. For example, Joe Restic, nead coach of the football team, said recently, "Managers play a very, very, important role in Harvard athletics. They are a vital part of our particular program...
...confessed Budget Director David Stockman, the worst week of toil he had ever experienced. An admitted workaholic, Stockman had averaged about five hours of sleep a night during the five days prior to the President's speech-a time, he said, "when things began to get interesting." Among other things, he had chaired a meeting of the Cabinet in Reagan's absence, a symbol of the President's intense trust in his judgment on economic matters. One congressional Democrat describes him as being "like Svengali, like Rasputin to the Tsar." But others are awed by his incisive...
John Paul's third encyclical exalts the dignity of toil...
GARMENT INDUSTRY. Throughout New York City, the center of American garment manufacturing, the kind of horrid sweatshop common in the early 1900s is flourishing anew. In Chinatown lofts, Queens garages and South Bronx storefronts, workers toil from dawn until well past dark sewing pants, shirts and blouses for as little as 8? apiece. The rooms are often dimly lit and poorly ventilated. In many cases, huge rolls of cloth block fire exits. The workers range from the young to the very old. In a raid on Chinatown sweatshops last spring, federal investigators found one 90-year-old woman...