Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy maintains, however, that the builders share much of the blame for what it calls "cost growth." The admirals cite low worker productivity at the shipyards, long delays in deliveries from subcontractors and an uneconomical and unwise expansion of productive capacity. Nonetheless, Navy Secretary Claytor concedes that "there is enough blame for everyone concerned...
...warship docked at the base thus becomes a kind of factory where a sailor puts in a day's work and then leaves, just like any civilian worker. Single enlisted men often head for the Scuttle Butt, a lively disco bearing no resemblance to the "slop chute" E.M. clubs that former Navy men knew. The new informality is striking. According to some officers, today's sailor does not always say "Yes, sir," but may just as frequently say "Yeah," and then add, "Have a nice...
...morning of September 21, 1976, Ronni Moffitt and her co-worker and husband, Michael Moffitt, drove Letelier's dust-blue Chevelle out to suburban Maryland to pick Letelier up for work. They had driven his car home the night before because their own car wouldn't start. The three left the Letelier home at 9:15 a.m.--Michael Moffitt in the back seat, his wife and Letelier in the front. Just as they passed the Chilean embassy in downtown Washington a bomb exploded in the car. Both Letelier and Ronni Moffitt died shortly after their arrival at the hospital; Michael...
...that some of the students' tuition fees are used to support research and laboratory work in another part of the University unrelated to the students' own field. For example, undergrads' fees may be used to help defray the extra cost of a medical student's education, or a laboratory worker's research. The question is, why should undergrads' fees be used to support this activity extraneous to their own education, when in fact the University in question could use part of its own endowment to pay for these medical and lab activities...
...pains, Cowley recalls, "I was . . . excoriated in The Daily Worker and caricatured in The New Masses (as a soldier with a whisky flask in his hip pocket and a chamberpot on his head, offering a fascist salute to J.P. Morgan...