Word: walke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strike by Amtrak workers last week. The United Food and Commercial Workers, representing 44,000 supermarket workers in Northern California, has a contract expiring in February. "UPS was important," says David Smith, public-policy director for the AFL-CIO, "but it doesn't make any of these negotiations a walk in the park...
...American Cancer Society stirred less controversy last year when it entered an exclusive deal with the Florida Orange Growers Association. The society gets $1 million annually for cancer research in exchange for allowing the A.C.S. logo to appear on ads and juice cartons. "We do walk a fine line," acknowledges A.C.S. spokesperson Steven Dickinson. "But what we're doing is not a formal endorsement. We make it clear that orange juice is only an example of the kinds of foods in a healthy diet...
...size of a truck muffler bolted to go-cart wheels; he sits in front of the glowing, screaming toy and zips across the alkali flats. It's nothing like piloting a computer. And there's the elaborate camera obscura some thoughtful person usually sets up, big enough to walk into and see the desert upside down. And this year, if my girls can be talked into it, we'll squish in the mud of nearby hot springs and wander around as dried-mud people, just like everyone else...
...Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Queens, N.Y., with 9,000 members and a towering new $23 million cathedral, operates a government-funded social-services network that would be the envy of many municipal governments. The church's 30,000-sq.-ft. social-services center houses a city-funded walk-in clinic and federal Head Start classrooms at street level. On the center's second floor are a city-sponsored prenatal-counseling program for teen mothers, a state-sponsored housing and community-renewal program and offices for the federal Women, Infants and Children program. Scattered throughout the building, which...
...immediately; insist that dubious propositions be put in writing; above all, just hang up on an overly unctuous phone caller. For those who cannot bring themselves to be so rude, Somers has a softer tip: Ask the caller to hold on because someone is ringing the doorbell--and then walk away for a good long time...