Word: units
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...usually self-insured firms, prefer to use the stick. Employees at E.A. Miller, a meat-packing unit of ConAgra in Hyrum, Utah, are charged extra for medical coverage if they smoke. They must also wear seat belts and, if they are pregnant, attend childbirth classes, or they could lose their insurance. It seems to work. Since the plan's inception in 1990, no employee has been killed in a car accident, and the number of premature births has dropped from three in a two-year period to just two in the past five years. "We want to teach employees...
...early works, the fiercest comes out of a job he briefly held in a California madhouse. Through the door of The State Hospital, 1966, you peer into a charnel house of the soul, in which an emaciated and filthy body lies on the lower bunk of a two-tier unit while his doppelganger lies on the one above, encircled by a neon thought balloon. He is the real patient's dream; there is no escape from the confinement and lunacy; one fortifies the other...
Jackson said the end product of Yale's unwillingness to offer workers a livable wage and job security could lead to the breakdown of the family unit, which in turn could lead to an increase of welfare recipients and more violence...
...deadliest accident in the history of commercial atomic power. Ten years ago, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine spewed lethal radiation killing at least 30 people and affecting thousands more across the then-Soviet Union and Europe. On April 26, 1986 the blast at unit no. 4 caused a nuclear meltdown, with blazes burning at temperatures of up to 5000 Fahrenheit, or twice that of molten steel. The reactor burned for two weeks slowly releasing dangerous radioactivity into the air. The radiation, carried by the wind, wound its lethal path across the Soviet Union...
...Dubrovnik airport's primitive landing-guidance system may have played a role in the crash that killed Ron Brown and 34 others on April 3. Perhaps the tragedy could have been averted if the U.S. Air Force had deployed one of its AN/TRN-26 Tactical Air Navigation systems there. The unit can offer detailed guidance to as many as 100 planes at once. Just the size of a desk and equipped with a 10-ft.-high antenna, the system is so portable it can be set up in only four hours. The Air Force has 43 of these units, which...