Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frank McLaughlin is not a miracle worker--the product he must sell is Harvard basketball, and in many ways it represents a more formidable challenge than the other career options outlined above. More importantly, he could use some support from fickle fans, stodgy alumni, and adamant administrators...
...proposed reforms of the ACSR, supported by 12 House committees, the Student Assembly and the Freshman Council, would provide for worker representation, ensure the committee's members are selected democratically, open the committee meetings to the Harvard community, and require the advisory committee to state publicly its agenda prior to each meeting...
When they disparage the productivity of the American worker [Feb. 5], do the economists give consideration to the following weighted factor...
Even when operating smoothly, the phones' increased capabilities can create headaches. One Manhattan office worker who had called his wife at home later tried to get through to a secretary in his office. Accidentally pressing the code that redials the previously called outside number, he was again connected with his wife. Not realizing whom he was talking to, he called her by the secretary's name. Before he became aware of the situation, his wife recognized his voice. A rather strained round of apologies and explanations followed...
...dramatist correctly analyzes himself as "not a speed reader but a speed understander, and a natural-born explainer." He is also a natural-born worker. He never has fewer than three projects going simultaneously, sits down seven days a week at a cluttered desk in his Manhattan apartment and writes at least eight hours a day, banging out manuscripts at a phenomenal 90 words a minute. Unconcerned with literary style, Asimov concentrates instead on clarity. The result is a manuscript that can usually be taken from the typewriter to the typesetter. His publishers, who know a good thing when they...