Word: worked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Cardinal Macharski, citing a "violent campaign of accusations and slanders" by Jews denouncing the delay, said he was indefinitely suspending plans to construct the new center because the work could not proceed in an "atmosphere of aggressive demands." The World Jewish Congress quickly assailed Macharski's comments as "brutal and violent" and "a tragic blow" to ecumenical efforts...
Colleges started sharing information in the 1950s. Now critics say the system is tantamount to price fixing. College officials disagree, but they are complying with the inquiry. "I've done almost nothing but work on this request since July 31," says Amherst College treasurer James Scott. It will be worth the effort, he says, if critics "bitching and moaning about college costs" come to see that no one is getting rich teaching the country's children...
...that employees have even less control over medical costs than do corporations. "What can an ordinary phoneworker do about the prices that hospitals and physicians charge?" asks Dale Hiestand, professor of corporate relations at the Columbia University School of Business. A better solution, union leaders argue, is to work harder to keep costs down. They point to a program at BellSouth in which managers and employees have joined forces to cut costs, enabling the Atlanta-based company to keep its generous health-care coverage intact...
...Nice Work covers new ground, particularly in its analysis of Thatcherite Britain in relation to the Victorian industrial era. It is just as consciously literary as either of the first two, but it has a firmer grounding in the contemporary social and economic problems of modern-day Britain...
...world of academia, from which the previous novels rarely strayed, is on a collisiion course with reality in Nice Work. It is to Lodge's credit that he can see the reality so clearly from such a literary standpoint. And vice versa...