Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impact of his 1974 strategy can best be expressed by the anecdote that one of Bryan Dorn's campaign workers told Marvin Chernoff, the mastermind behind Ravenel's campaigns. After the worker helped an illiterate woman get to the polls, he asked who would be her choice. The woman replied, "I guess you'd better give me the television...
...rooms seem to range from fairly clean to completely nauseating. Some of them are one step behind the Board of Health." Dierdre Donahue '80, a dorm crew worker in Winthrop House, said yesterday...
...afford to meet requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He collects reports of hundreds of small companies that have abandoned pension plans because they could not comply with the expensive requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), "and so the worker winds up with no pension...
...cities are dominated by the roar of bulldozers and the rattle of jackhammers. The hard hat of the construction worker rivals the checkered ghutra as the national headdress. In the bustling commercial and financial port city of Jidda, on the Red Sea, bulldozers tear into the graceful old houses of the Ottoman era with their latticework balconies and harem windows. In the capital city of Riyadh, rows of mud houses topped with crenelated roofs are smashed to dust to make way for superhighways or high-rise buildings of chrome, glass and soaring reinforced concrete. Passenger jets land and depart from...
...reason is that blacks today have the education to fill higher-paid jobs. The average black male worker in 1970 had only 1.2 fewer years of schooling than the average white, and the gap is probably smaller now. Affirmative-action programs have opened many new jobs to women-especially blacks-and the industrialization of the South has, been another powerful force. Half of all Southern black women who had jobs in 1960 worked as domestics. By 1970 the figure was down to 25%, and for black women age 21 to 25, a mere...