Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...social worker Nadja Gould discussed the rationale behind the 1971 creation of Room 13, Harvard's first peer counseling group. But changes in social attitudes since then and increased social acceptance of serious problems have enabled peer counseling to diversify, Gould said...
...surprisingly, Feller's view is that two seasons are insufficient for comparison. "People are always wanting to know too soon what I think about a Willie Mays or a Joe Charboneau or a Mark Fidrych or a Dwight Gooden. Gooden seems like a hard worker, and he's off to a fine start. As far as I can tell, he's keeping his ducks in a row." By that, maybe he means Gooden doesn't brag much. "Only in the middle of 1946," Feller thinks back, "did I ever try to strike everybody out. I had a chance...
...facetiousness, and when Keaton parades his elfin jock swagger, Gung Ho is agreeable. But its relentless stereotyping of the Japanese provokes winces and worse. Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker. Perhaps the brand of canny moral exuberance that Gung Ho finally prescribes is available these days only to Presidents, evangelists and coaches in the N.C.A.A. Final Four. On the big screen it seems suffocatingly smug...
Chirac had joined the Gaullist party when he was only 14, and after leaving the Ecole Nationale he rose rapidly through the party ranks, achieving the position of Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development under Pompidou. "Chirac was like fireworks," remembers one co-worker. "He took off from all sides--his arms, his legs, his ideas...
...Most of the broad issues identified by the union are no longer preventing a settlement," said GE spokesman William Kennedy. Despite this progress, he said an end to the 7400-worker strike was "not imminent...