Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soup vendors were prudently getting off the streets an hour before deadline. The capital was in no immediate danger. Yet as scare stories of Communist advances reached the city, many people began talking of leaving the country altogether. "Where do we go now?" asked Nguyen Thi Luong, an office worker who fled Hanoi in 1954. "Twenty years ago we came south. Now we're at the bottom and can't go any farther...
...least 100 people have been reported killed in the crush at the precipitous Hai Van pass. A student and a policeman got into an argument and the student went over the edge, reported a New Zealand relief worker who interviewed refugees. One truck carrying at least 30 people was squeezed off the road and toppled over the precipice, which drops 1,000 ft. in some places...
...tuned out the rest of the world. In a dining room below, guests could not hear the maestro's music, but they were soon aware of the bath water that had flooded the pianist's quarters and started seeping across the dining-room ceiling. After a hotel worker had hurried up to stop the flow, the preoccupied pianist rushed off to his performance, then, next morning, left with scarcely an apology for the $900 worth of damage. "We've written to his agency asking if they have insurance," says Hotel Roanoke General Manager Kenneth Wilkey. "If they...
...company runs a reactionary bourgeois ideology with the intention of keeping workers quiet while exploiting them," Ryan said. "The company wants to get rid of the [seniority] system, so they can play one worker against another. The more you ass lick, the better...
...Currier House dining Hall worker who is trying to base a one day University imposed suspension removed from his record said yesterday he will take his case into arbitration for final resolution...