Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memorandum sent to all Medical Area Personnel, Steiner said "a bargaining unit limited to clerical and technical employees in the Medical Area is not an appropriate unit under the National Labor Relations...
...Harvard--but the organizing drive among Cambridge clerical workers have just started. The Cambridge group will probably take a long time to get on its feet, but after it does it can work closely enough with the medical area group to be able to function practically as a single unit, well-attuned to the specific needs of members in different areas...
Nowadays the Army can afford to be very choosy. The recession has increased the number and quality of the applicants. The members of one new company at Fort Jackson average 12.7 years of schooling. A high school graduate who signs up for a combat unit gets a $2,500 bonus when he enlists. His monthly pay starts at $344.10 a month, plus another $110.70 a month if he is married, plus free uniforms, housing, food, medical care and the benefits of the G.I. Bill waiting for him when he leaves...
That is certainly true. Inflation is running at 85% per year, the currency is practically worthless, and many staples are almost unobtainable. Ugandans do not complain lest they receive a visit from Amin's public safety unit, a corps of goons in dark glasses who, as a Ugandan exile put it, "specialize in making people disappear-permanently." For those who disappear only temporarily, there is the prospect of torture: Kampala abounds with tales of prisoners who have been buried to their necks in cesspools, forced to beat comrades to death or compelled to engage in cannibalism. Shopkeepers accused...
...cost next to nothing and, to the envy of the rest of the world, have not increased in price in 20 years; yet "luxury" items, such as bicycles or radios, can soak up months of savings. The average urban worker is likely to: live in a drab, two-room unit in a massive, slate-gray apartment complex; work a 48-hour week; spend his Sunday picnicking in one of China's shady parks; pass his evenings in a workers' cultural palace watching a variety show (full of revolutionary songs and skits), learning a musical instrument, or playing Ping...