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Word: worker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basket of symptoms with no clear cause," as one expert termed it, sick-building syndrome can confine itself to one office or spread through an entire building. Some workers will get it; others won't. Symptoms are usually confined to the workplace, but in some cases, like Polansky's, they can hang on for years, even after a worker has left a building. According to Dr. Claudia Miller of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, repeated exposure to toxins given off by molds and bacteria may hypersensitize people to the point that they react to even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Place Makes Me Sick | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

Maybe. Or she might be a casino worker. Or she might be selling pottery by the roadside. Or she might be coping with alcoholism...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Choose Your Own Sacajawea | 12/16/1998 | See Source »

...codes that have been adapted only require companies to pay the minimum wage, which is often appallingly low and often forces the worker to choose between food and clothing," said Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) steering committee...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Protestors Deem Code of Labor Standards Inadequate | 12/16/1998 | See Source »

MOVIE ANTZ ANIMATORS 35 WEIRDEST CASTING Woody Allen as a worker ant FAST-FOOD TIE-INS None, because the studio rushed the movie out to beat A Bug's Life PROTESTS SPARKED University entomologists fault the depiction of the ant colony and life-style GROWNUPS' BONUS The ants drink from an aphid's anus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 14, 1998 | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...days they searched for Gurule while I wrestled with guilt both about my deranged fantasies and about the mid-seven figures I was hoping to get for this really neat screenplay I'm working on about his escape. I felt a little better when I found out a co-worker and several other friends were secretly rooting for him too. Even my grandmother, who I don't think is rooting for me, was pulling for that wily Gurule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rooting for the Death-Row Fugitive Guy | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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