Word: workdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since 1971, the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recommended, but barely enforced, a maximum of 90 decibels-the sound of a heavy truck-throughout an eight-hour workday. OSHA wants to keep to that level. The Environmental Protection Agency and the labor unions want the limit reduced to 85, the din of a busy street. Many industries are strongly opposed to such regulation and claim it would be ruinous. The noise level now registers about 105 decibels next to the looms in a textile mill, and 115 close to an automobile factory...
...coffee-making days may be over, but Schroder's daily work routine is still largely similar to that of most secretaries here. She spends a good part of her nine-to-five workday sitting in her office typing for her boss. She adamantly insists she likes being a secretary--"Secretary can be a satisfying job if you can get respect," she says. "Secretaries are so used to menial tasks, doing what they're told, that they don't think. I'd like to see secretary raised to professional status...
...nowhere to become one of official Washington's brightest new Wunderkinder-and the youngest Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ever. Parsky serves Treasury Secretary William Simon as confidant, emissary and all-round Mr. Fixit. He sees Simon a dozen times daily and often closes his 14-hour workday chatting with his chief over soggy pizza and a couple of fingers of Scotch. With his wife and two children, Parsky sometimes spends Sunday, his only day off, at the Simon estate in Virginia...
...Look Now is one of those films which reminds us how few possibilities of the movie camera have been explored. Part of the reason why spiritual second sight is a subject so native to film is that the medium is still so spiritual. Its mostly workday techniques are still mysteries. The connection pervades films of the sinister all the way back to the trick shots in Nosferatu. If the current techniques may look hockey in a few years--as the story already does--it will be because they are so fundamental and used with such emotional strength...
Feisal must be the world's hardest-working King. Like many executives, he suffers from ulcers, which have forced him to pare his workday from 18 hours to 14 hours. When asked about his health, he sometimes replies: "Still living." He rises at dawn, prays-one of five daily prayer sessions-and rides in the front seat of a Chrysler New Yorker from his unostentatious villa to his small, paneled office in the green-roofed presidential palace in Riyadh. He never uses the sprawling $60 million palace built by the profligate Saud. When an interior decorator had a sumptuous...