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...Typist-clerks ($14,300) and grounds keepers ($17,524) are also laboring equally, the study concluded. Says striking Typist-Clerk Jan Piper, 37: "I feel I shouldn't have to be a grounds keeper to make an adequate living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upping the Ante Over Equal Pay in San Jose | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...thesis was due, she changed the focus of her topic. She didn't start writing the text until five days beforehand. At 3:30 the day it was due, she had no introduction, no conclusion, no footnotes, and no bibliography. Photo dictated the introduction and conclusion to her typist, and handed her chapters in with only the barest bibliography and footnotes. When she got it back, Photo was dismayed that what was supposed to be the culmination of her academic experience was missing sentences, graphs, and equations. "One of my readers said it was an 'abysmal presentation,'" she says, adding...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Photo, Photo, Photo, Photo | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...would have to enlist every friend she had on Wednesday night to type the entire thesis because the printer was exhausted. She swore she'd tell every junior she knew never, never to try to type a thesis onto the computer; it was worth it to pay a typist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREATION OF A THESIS | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...Stuart and Elaine at Brigham's. Flaine had just sent her conclusion to a typist. She was talking in monosyllables, her eves bloodshot and dazed, since the effects of the coffee and speed she'd been downing all weekend were just beginning to wear off. Heather envied her: She had to trudge back to Littauer, and Flaine could go to sleep. Heather would have givern her first-born for six hours of sleep. It was the evening and the morning of the fourth all-nighter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREATION OF A THESIS | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...glamourous International Herald Tribune. "We don't have any internship program"--not a welcome sentence when you are standing on foreign soil, thousands of miles from home, mute (for all practical purposes), and without friends or finances. The second worst sentence possible in this situation: "Oh, you're the typist...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: My Happy Summer in France | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

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