Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moving back into the street, the Palestinians stumbled onto a municipal worker named Jacob Kadosh, 59. "Who are you?" they asked. "A Jew," said Kadosh. "Which way to the school?" demanded the Hebrew-speaking Arab. The puzzled Kadosh pointed, and then was shot in the shoulder. The three men advanced to the school, 100 yds. away, and were inside before the guards realized that they were there. Waving guns and hand grenades, the Palestinians jolted the sleeping students awake with kicks on the feet. "Lakum, lakum [Get up, get up]!" they yelled. Fifteen students, a few teachers and the rabbi...
Like the famed "bullet train" that rockets from Tokyo to Kyoto at 125 m.p.h., Japanese wage rates are rushing ahead at a speed unmatched anywhere else. In last month's shunto, or "spring offensive," Japanese unions won pay raises for 35 million workers averaging 31.4%-the biggest across-the-board increase on record for any industrialized society. The boosts will place many once lowly paid Japanese workers on a par with their European counterparts. The typical steel worker's pay (not including fringe benefits) rose from the 1973 level of $493 a month to $650. Auto workers...
...last week, before the Japanese worker had much of a chance to either save his new-found wealth or spend it on the television sets and tape recorders that he makes, doubts spread as to whether anyone had really won any thing worthwhile. Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka warned that the big pay raises could set off a vicious wage-price spiral that would boomerang against consumers and threaten Japan's competitiveness in world markets. The workers themselves, who had gone so far as to stage a two-day transportation strike to press their demands, concede gloomily that most...
...process by which airborne fiber levels are measured is, unfortunately, enormously time-consuming. It requires the use of a complex air pumping device which, attached to a worker's belt, draws air through a hose connected to a filter pinned to his lapel. But even if measurement is taken over a two or three-hour period, it may not reflect the full extent of contamination, since the most dense exposure may occur only once a day or less when the substance is poured from shipping sacks into mixing bins, for example, generating huge plumes of dust...
...onetime sheet-metal worker, Grant scurried into British show business as a bit-actor, professional wrestler (under the name Prince Massimo) and rock-group errand boy before becoming manager of the Yardbirds in 1967. When the Yardbirds disbanded a year later and Lead Guitarist Jimmy Page formed Led Zeppelin, Grant signed on as pilot...