Word: treating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week former CIA Director Richard Helms made much the same point: "If we treat people who do this kind of work as second-class citizens, we are not going to be able to get anybody to do our dirty work...
...about two-thirds of Brent's patients have been children born minus an ear, and he likes to treat them young, before they have to face schoolmates' cruel kidding. His youngest patient to date was three, which meant there was still time for a new ear to grow a bit. Normally, an ear reaches near-adult size by age six. One of his happy patients is Lance Chervony, 5, of San Jose. He seemed untroubled by lack of a normal ear, though it attracted playground attention. Now in school after a Brent operation, he displays...
...been wronged by the marijuana laws, and for years the judges had summarily whisked the whining wrongdoers off to penitentiaries. But this case was different. In this instance the defendant was released because he truly did have a special reason for smoking the forbidden weed--he needed it to treat his worsening case of glaucoma...
Boston, with its permanent reserve labor force of unemployed college graduates, is bound to treat its office workers badly. But few people realized just how badly until 1972 when a group of angry secretaries began looking at Bureau of Labor Statistics studies. They found that while Boston had the highest cost of living in the continental United States, its clerical workers were among the lowest paid. A study of clerical salaries in 15 comparable cities found that only employers in Birmingham and Memphis paid lower wages than those in Boston...
Probably 9to5's most spectacular battle has been the campaign against discrimination in the Massachusetts insurance industry. As a direct result, the state is the first in the country to regulate the ways insurance companies treat women and minority employees...