Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Suárez moved to legalize the Communist Party, convinced that the Communists were more of a threat outside the system than in it?and aware that there would be protests in Western Europe if they were barred from political participation. In a deft stroke of timing, he chose Easter weekend, when most of Spain was on holiday, to act. So stunning was the news that the Radio Nacional announcer sputtered through the first bulletin in disbelief...
...Sabbath on Saturdays rather than Sunday* TWA tried to accommodate Hardison by changing his schedule, but that eventually brought him into conflict with the seniority system worked out in conjunction with his union, the International Association of Machinists-/.?., employees who had been there longer got first choice on weekend days off. Hardison then asked for a four-day week, which would have obliged the company to pay a replacement at overtime rates for weekend work. Instead, in 1969 it fired Hardison, and Hardison sued...
...amateur federation. An American track-meet promoter, anxious to lure a top dash man to his indoor meet to increase the gate, called a speedster and promised him $800 plus expenses for joining the field. But two meets were scheduled on the opposite coast for the same weekend, and the sprinter had been offered round-trip plane tickets by both meet directors-one of which he could cash in as an informal subsidy. So the promoter decided that to clinch the deal it was necessary to tack on a sliding scale of incentive payments for any records the runner might...
...Portnoy's Complaint and the novels of D.H. Lawrence-and what these books suggest about contemporary sexuality. Her 1964 essay mourning the killing of John F. Kennedy best displays the author's power to summon back events. In the intensity of the national bereavement on that "pitiless weekend," she writes, "Americans moved toward each other, groping for the connection which would dispel loneliness." The hope generated by the Kennedy presidency, as Trilling accurately notes, was "acute and real ... our best educated classes would prefer to forget what they expected of Kennedy...
...summertime Friday at 1 p.m. in all its administrative offices around the country, finds that while the workers love it, business callers sometimes get frustrated trying to reach someone on the phone on a Friday afternoon. Other four-day companies have found that workers tend to use their longer weekends to moonlight on second jobs, and thus show up exhausted when they return on Mondays. Many companies simply cannot afford the long weekend because federal law requires any firm with more than $10,000 in Government business to pay overtime to employees who work more than eight hours...