Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director of the California department of transportation are women- as are 541 other Brown appointees. Reforms do not end with quotas. Once bastions of professional courtesy, the states regulatory boards are being filled with ordinary citizens. The medical board's vice-president is a black woman auto worker. A tough coastal commission protects what remains of California's 840-mile coastline. A new law freezing the state's agricultural acreage will halt the untamed growth of suburbs. Smog is down 50% in the L.A. basin because of stiff fines and surveillance. Two-thirds of a projected...
...office building by lobbyists screaming "Killer! Killer!" He nevertheless maintained his pro-abortion stand. It takes courage for a Congresswoman like Maryland's Barbara Mikulski, whose Baltimore area is heavily Catholic, to fight the right-to-lifers as resolutely as she has. "I am a professionally trained social worker," she explains. "I know what the coat-hanger abortion is all about...
Without even pausing for a cup of coffee, Bishop drove back to his office, where he began seeing patients: a construction worker with a sprained shoulder, an obese teen-ager trying to shed pounds, several elderly women with high blood pressure, a man with an inflamed prostate and a 25-year-old girl who had missed several periods. He inquired not only about his patients' health, but also about their families', carefully explained every diagnosis, answered all questions and charged only $10 for an office visit...
...Mess. Stevens, 48, a onetime construction worker from Oklahoma, took his dream to the folk at Stonybrook Full Gospel Temple down in Fremont, a Pentecostal church that he had scraped together. After a prayer meeting, five of the 70-odd parishioners agreed to sell their houses to make up half the down payment. The other half is due in August; then come stiff monthly payments...
...workshops at Red House and Kelmscott offered as radical a challenge to English mass fabrication with its textiles, furniture and printed papers as, 70 years later, the Bauhaus would present to industrial manufacture in the 20th century. As book printer, weaver of tapestries, furniture designer and stained-glass worker, Morris consistently turned out the best work of anyone in Victorian England. Moreover, he was one of the century's major social thinkers...