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Word: worker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through factory and office outlets that offer a wider selection than is available in state stores. But not all rubles are created equal: a top Soviet bureaucrat can buy a food package that may include canned crab, high-quality cheese, imported hard salami and lean meat. For a factory worker, the package would more likely contain chicken, less desirable cheese, domestic sausage and canned fish. Even some of the artful dodges developed by resourceful shoppers over the years are proving unreliable in the current crisis. "I've always bought meat on the black market at a premium," says a well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Why the Bear's Cupboards Are Bare | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...turned out that the mail was intended for American military personnel stationed in Britain and was unloaded at Heathrow Airport before the Pan Am plane's ill-fated takeoff for New York. But according to some West German reports, British investigators now suspect the bomb was planted by a worker at London's Heathrow Airport. British officials called the claim "pure speculation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism In Search of Answers | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

Pasquale said the charges stemmed from an October 24 incident in which Cardona, who worked for a maintenance company that was hired to clean Holyoke Center, allegedly assaulted his co-worker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maintenance Worker Arraigned for Assault | 1/13/1989 | See Source »

...group has received a great deal of support from President Bok and funding from the University, says Nadja Gould, the group's clinical supervisor and a UHS social worker. There are pamphlets about Life Raft in all of the Network offices as well as at the offices of Harvard's other counseling groups, such as Room 13 and Response. Bunn has written letters to senior tutors to tell them about the program and The Harvard Gazette announces the meetings each week. Reisz says, however, that "you can never publicize enough...

Author: By Carolyn J. Sporn, | Title: A Comfortable Place to Cry | 1/4/1989 | See Source »

...Washington-based Worldwatch Institute. Every individual on the planet must be made aware of its vulnerability and of the urgent need to preserve it. No attempt to protect the environment will be successful in the long run unless ordinary people -- the California housewife, the Mexican peasant, the Soviet factory worker, the Chinese farmer -- are willing to adjust their life-styles. Our wasteful, careless ways must become a thing of the past. We must recycle more, procreate less, turn off lights, use mass transit, do a thousand things differently in our everyday lives. We owe this not only to ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: What on EARTH Are We Doing? | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

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