Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibility of a meltdown, while admittedly slight, does exist. Many people forget the two near-disasters within the last 12 years: in 1966 the Fermi reactor near Detroit suffered a partial meltdown; in 1974 the Browns' Ferry reactor in Alabama went completely out of control when a careless maintenance worker started a fire among the cables used to dampen the reaction, knocking out both the primary and secondary safety systems. Plant engineers later said it was a miracle that they managed to regain control over the reactor before it blew up completely. The point of this book is simply...
...feel fine. But I felt fine before Camp David as well. The hardest worker was President Carter, because he was on all the committees. I was with my friends. He was everywhere. And usually we would go to bed at 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock, even 4 o'clock in the morning. But when you have spiritual elation, the physical tiredness disappears...
Police trying to enforce it, at any rate, have swept up along with the hookers a 25-year-old Radcliffe graduate on the way home from the movies and a church worker counseling prostitutes. Meanwhile, pimps, the most noxious corner of the prostitution triangle, often go untouched. Convicting them is difficult because prostitutes are frequently afraid to testify against them. The Manhattan district attorney's office will use most of $200,000 it just received from the state for combating pimps to change the prostitutes' minds and lives with protection and "travel home" money...
...stormy and emotional meeting Tuesday night, the members of Local 26 shouted their dissatisfaction with the contract offer. They stressed their belief, as one worker put it, that "Harvard's trying to make a profit and we're trying to make a living...
...point to the ascendancy of the monopoly sector at the expense of the competitive, O'Connor focuses on the economic interests and political leverage of monopolies. Two economic pressures with major political ramifications emanate from this sector. First, the monopoly sector expands based on "increases in physical capital per worker and technical progress," not increased employment. Monopolies therefore grow without creating jobs, forcing the state to confront the needs and costs of high unemployment...