Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shift in the Harvard Cooks' attitude first became apparent in December, when Sherman L. Holcombe, the newly-elected shop steward at Radcliffe's dining halls, submitted a list of grievances about Harvard and Stefani to the Personnel Office. Holcombe, a 45-year-old former truck driver, complained that Harvard was not listing fully its work reflied its and joy openings, and that the union was overcharging workers on their dues. He also asked that Harvard find year-round dining room employment for union members, rather than giving them different jobs during the summer...
...were reported to have blown up an important bridge at Keren, on the road to the Sudan to the west. In a drive to cut off the road from the port city of Assab on the Red Sea, the main source of Ethiopia's oil, the guerrillas warned truck drivers: "Put your nose out of town and you will be roasted alive!" Nonetheless, government troops tried to consolidate their hold on Asmara. Refugees, many leading donkeys or pushing wheelbarrows laden with pots and pans, straggled from the city past government tanks and machine-gun positions. At week...
...vehicle for its female lead. A rarity in today's male-dominated film market, Alice Doesn 't Live Here Anymore (TIME, Feb. 3) is an on-the-road journey toward self-discovery in which the seeker is a woman. A 35-year-old housewife whose oafish truck-driver husband is killed in a collision, Alice packs her twelve-year-old son into a battered station wagon and sets off for California in a desperately unrealistic attempt to recapture her girlhood dream of becoming a night club singer "better than Alice Faye...
...HEOC would like to extend its thanks for your article in the January 15 Dump Truck on Traudi Schroder and our union drive. However, one factual error must be corrected, as it is fundamental in raising support for our union drive. Secretaries are among the largest segment of employees to be represented, but not the only segment. Among the employees eligible for this union, and a portion of whom are now very active on our Core Committee are the following research assistants, duplicating machinists, computer programmers, library assistants, systems analysis, administrative assistants, mail room workers...
Floor Traffic. Thus the sudden skid in car sales hit the already shaky economy with the impact of a runaway truck, toppling it into a much deeper recession than almost anyone had anticipated. Government economists estimate that the car slump accounted for fully half of the 9.1% decline in gross national product in the fourth quarter of 1974 and was the major factor in lifting the nation's jobless rate to more than 7%. Moreover, chances for even a moderate business recovery in the year ahead depend to an enormous degree on a resurgence of car sales...