Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hue from the spectrum in Denver. T shirts, scarves, pins, sweaters, radios, coats, can openers, beer mugs, the hair on otherwise-sane heads and Christmas trees have been dyed to match the Broncos' Orange. Defensive End Lyle Alzado, star of the A.F.C.'s best defensive unit, an indefatigable worker in community projects and perhaps the team's most popular player, mused: "Who the hell would want an orange Christmas tree? I sure wouldn't." Enough Denverites did, however, to strip the shelves of spray paint. And the distributor for the sweet soft drink that bears the fortunate?...
...library worker who felt the Lamont atmosphere was becoming "tense" said, "You know how they have fast-food? Here we've got fast-books...
...much uneasiness as their counterparts on the right. They decry the "austerity measures" which Prime Minister Raymond Barre has been carrying out in an attempt to stimulate the French economy without fueling inflation. Instead, they favor proposals of the Common Program, which promises increased benefits and services for workers, raises in salaries and wages, and worker participation in industrial management. But the future of the Common Program is in doubt, because of bitter fighting between its adherents. The Union of the Left, a coalition of Socialists, Communists, and the tiny Leftist Radicals party, shattered dramatically last September 23 when...
...first the only work available to them was in car washes or New England orchards and farms. The doors to Cambridge factories were closed to Hispanics according to Roberto Santiago, a Cambridge Hispanic who is a community liason worker for the city school department. But if some types of work were off limits, employment for unskilled laborers was abundant...
...crawl over broken lives," says Michael Haynes. describing the walk from his small apartment in the black ghetto of Roxbury. Mass., to the Twelfth Baptist Church, where he has been pastor for 13 years. Haynes was a broken 15-year-old himself when a Roxbury social worker "lassoed my life." coaxed him back to Christianity and into seminary...