Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knew which belonged to which?" Children also were dying of malnutrition in the orphanages at the time. "When you see that, you don't care what goes on; you just want to get those little kids out," explains Anna Forder, a St. Louis lawyer who, as a social worker in Viet Nam, was familiar with the orphanages...
...Sang, 32, a Vietnamese woman now working as a hotel cleaning worker in Ohio, is seeking her son, Le Tuan Anh, 7, who lives with a California family. Says Sang: "I telephoned, but the other lady says she doesn't want me to talk with him. She says I must speak English, and I do and she answers...
...that the publicizing of and action upon the abuses inflicted by the Harvard University administration on the University community is of great importance. It is with this in mind that we, of the TFAA, send this letter to your paper in support of the struggle of Afro-American kitchen worker Paul Glass...
...T.U.C.'s leaders accepted the austere pay formula, recognizing that failure to do so would almost certainly mean a continued double-digit inflation that erodes worker purchasing power faster than pay raises can keep up with it -the disease that has forced British governments into stop-go cycles of inflation and recession since the early 1960s. Exclaimed T.U.C. Chief Len Murray: "It is the best news for many a long day in Britain." Healey credited the agreement to public exasperation with inflation: "People got sick and tired of being paid in confetti...
...accord calls for limiting all wage increases to an average of 4.5%. Under this arrangement, weekly increases for the 40% of the work force earning between $90 and $144 a week will be 5%. No worker's raise will be less than $4.50 or higher than $7.20. The government's part of the bargain is to cut income taxes by $1.7 billion a year...