Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately for the Black Knights, things weren't so straightforward on the football field. While Cadet coach Ed Cavanaugh attributed the upset loss to a lack of emotional intensity, the Crimson defense clearly took the game to Army, forcing six turnovers and throwing a wrench into Army's heralded Jerryl Bennett-to-Mike Fahenstock passing duet...
...Last year was atrocious," he said, adding, "There weren't enough nominees, so we had to delay the elections and hold nominations again. This year there were just a few more nominees than seats...
...Human beings weren't built for repeating the same motion every 40 seconds for eight hours a day," he said, adding, "Where people were used for robots, now robots are being used as robots...
...working for "rights and respect for the women office workers of Boston" is her organization's chief objective. She points to the low self-esteem O'Donnell felt in her job as one of the primary obstacles facing secretaries in their drive for recognition. "Women office workers felt they weren't being treated with respect on the job and that they weren't valued at their true worth to a company. They tended to be underpaid--not given opportunities for promotion or advancement--and had a lack of knowledge about their legal rights," Snyder says...
...legend everyplace men went underground, trusting their lives to rotting timbers. In the Pacific Northwest, where the IWW enrolled almost every lumberjack, Wobblie Iry Hansen says, "The lumber companies were all so worried about those little people that were out organizing. They were not paid organizers; they weren't professionals or anything. They were just lumberjacks...