Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect was to put a brake on the entrenched power of the conservatives, who have ruled Japanese politics for 24 years. That was exactly what many voters intended. As Yasuo Onomichi, 27, a Tokyo office worker, put it: "I voted for the Communists although I don't like them. The L.D.P. is too strong. It must be checked." One issue on which the electorate seemed resigned was the widespread practice of illegal spending on entertaining voters and sometimes making outright cash purchases of votes. In pre-election campaigning, one candidate, for instance, reportedly spent $20,000 to entertain...
Dave's neighborhood sprouted Wallace signs in 1968; the man with his greased hair looked like a steel worker, tough and uncompromising. They still grease down here; both the fathers and sons; flat-tops with fenders, massive Presley waves, or just a straight comb back. They drag race; '65 Chevies and second-hand Firebirds instead of the old '57 Chevy. They take pills and smoke a little dope and a few drop acid; but most of all they drink. They drink in bars or in alleys; beer after beer; shaking it hard to get a better lift. They wear Italian...
...different than the anti-black racism of an illiterate, backwater Southern sheriff. I could go on about how it is important to reach an understanding of the emptiness, and how hate all-too-often gives a perverted sense of meaning to the life of a steel-worker...
...figure is Vesco, a dapper mystery man who will turn 37 this week. The engineer son of a Detroit auto worker, Vesco appeared on the financial scene out of nowhere in 1965 to create by merger International Controls Corp., a New Jersey electric equipment company, which he once said he had built "on financial agility." He entered IOS in 1970 in the role of savior, arranging a desperately needed $10 million loan and later becoming chairman. Soon, though, the SEC charged, Vesco began acting as despoiler. His "brazen" scheme, according to the agency, unfolded in three steps...
...somehow different from the masses of people who struggled for my freedom... It was kind of an accident that things happened the way they did. It could have been someone else... I always saw my role in the struggle to be that of a different kind of worker. But now that she responsibility has been thrust upon me. I'm going to do the best I can to try to live...