Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discoveries have significant implications for gas consumers nationwide as well as for Louisiana, where one worker in twelve draws his paycheck from an energy company. A recent report to the Governor of Louisiana estimated that 85% of the state's potential oil-and gas-producing deposits have not yet been drilled, but most of the unexplored reserves are very deep and difficult to find, as in the Tuscaloosa Sand. There the wells are four times as deep as the average U.S. well. Drilling one costs about $5 million if it is a producer, almost as much...
...Social Security system is in financial trouble [Nov. 7] because the Congress has made it a general welfare fund, a process that has gone largely unnoticed by the average worker. Liberal legislators have discovered how easy it is to pass general welfare legislation under the Social Security (read old-age pension) banner. Giving away old-age pensions to college kids et al. continues...
...hero, but he's a gifted survivor and a natural-born fink. In return for forgetting what he knows of an assassination attempt by a company thug on the union leader, Leroy is promoted to foreman, and he loses touch with his worker friends in La Causa as quickly as he lost his accent...
...Case Worker (1974), Hungarian Novelist and Sociologist George Konrád examined a day in the life of a state welfare worker in Budapest. As a catalogue of human detritus, the novel was both powerful and disturbing; in its rapid-fire vignettes and tortured ruminations, it strained toward poetry. Konrád was justifiably praised as a promising new international voice and as something even more rare-a sociologist who can write...
This habit of skipping past the physical toward the philosophical makes The City Builder an altogether less-urgent narrative than The Case Worker. The bureaucrat hero has evidently led an interesting, if calamitous life, but he strews the details so negligently through his thoughts that only the most vigilant reader can piece them together. Konrád tries to atone for such cold impersonality by giving his builder a warm, strenuously rhetorical prose style (gracefully rendered by Translator Ivan Sanders). The effect is often striking. Konrád's metaphors can go off like depth charges: "Marble-faced generals...