Word: traced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retarding the output of industrial exports, absenteeism was a primary cause of Italy's $1.7 billion trade deficit last year. Managers trace the upsurge in absenteeism to a law, passed last June, forbidding company representatives from checking up at the home of employees who take off because of "illness." To collect his sick pay, which in the auto industry averages 50% of normal wages, a worker must now present only a doctor's certification that he has been ill. In a spot check on about 1,000 workers who had acquired certificates, the national health-insurance agency found...
Others feel that Radcliffe has never really furthered the interests of Harvard women and would definitely not be able to do so should it remain single. In December's Radcliffe Quarterly three graduate students trace the history of Radcliffe and reveal a consistently conservative attitude on Radcliffe's part when it comes to pressing Harvard for female equal opportunity. According to Ann N .Michelini '60, Co-chairman of the Graduate Women's Organization, "The existence of Radcliffe as a separate, but completely dependent institution has been repeatedly used by Harvard as a protective barrier against admitting women equally...
...current conflict around PL is easy to trace. Ever since its entry into SDS, in fact, PL has been a focus of heated controversy. A fledgling labor movement, PL decided in 1966 to have some of its younger members join SDS in order to link radical antiwar sentiment to trade unionism and, more important, to increase the membership of the party. But PL's Marxist orientation did not jibe well with the SDS of 1966, which was a loosely organized, free-wheeling coalition of anti-war and civil rights groups. A resolution to expel PL members from SDS was nearly...
...creation of an actual incident, recalled in a spirit of quiet fury. Working with only two professional actors, the maiden and the official. Bertucelli persuaded the inhabitants of a remote village-who had never seen a motion-picture camera-to perform their lives without a trace of self-consciousness or restraint. As a result, watching Ramparts of Clay is like looking at the sun-almost unendurable for long. The ritual slaughter of a ram, for instance, becomes a cataract of blood and pain...
...hard to trace DiCara's political roots. "No one in my family ever did anything more political than vote," DiCara has said. His father recalls only that Larry was "never shy" with people...