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Phelps and Austin may be training their students more in obnoxious behavior than in assertive behavior when they tell them to ask for "50 cents' worth of gas at the filling station, then demand that the attendant wash the car windows." What is wrong with a courteous request, whatever the amount of gasoline purchased...
Tipped off by Houston police, investigators in Onsted found the bodies of two Toledo girls, wrapped in plastic bags, buried outside the bedroom window of the old Taylor home. And in Enumclaw, Wash., authorities found the body of a missing woman behind a house where Taylor had lived. Last week he was charged with the killing...
...They were a raggedy bunch and they didn't know how to use things. One guy just squatted on the wash basin. So we showed them how to use the toilet. The shower was the big hit. Once we showed them how to use it, they had a ball. One guy held the gun, and the rest piled in under the shower. Some times they were afraid of things they did not understand...
...aliens working as domestics, farm hands, restaurant employees or garmentmakers often must tolerate meager wages in return for the tasks they perform and sweatshop conditions on the job. Says a young Greek who jumped ship seven years ago: "We don't take jobs away from the Americans. Greeks wash dishes in restaurants for $100 a week. Americans won't do that." Yet in March, when the INS rounded up 50 aliens employed by a Chicago janitorial firm, 150 people instantly applied for the vacated jobs. Many illegals have taken positions that would eagerly be filled by the least...
Traumatic Results. Some instructors give homework assignments. Phelps and Austin tell their students to ask for only 50 cents' worth of gas at the filling station, then demand that the attendant wash the car windows. Or they suggest that students request a demonstration of a product in a department store and then walk away without buying...