Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...write the whole check right away. Last November the two sides had come close to agreeing on a settlement of $500 million, but that amount would have been paid out over ten years. Union Carbide, which has insisted that the leak was an act of sabotage by a disgruntled worker, will have no trouble raising the cash. The company had already set aside $200 million for the purpose, and its insurance will cover another $250 million. But the case may not be fully closed, liability experts say, because dissatisfied Bhopal survivors may decide to file claims...
...loan could be used for homes costing no more than $72,000. "At first I felt a little bitter to realize that we couldn't begin to live as nicely as our parents do," said Doreen, 27, an office clerk. But she and Hamann, a 41-year-old postal worker, now consider themselves lucky. "When you hear about all the young people today who can't afford any kind of home," Doreen Hamann says, "I guess we've got nothing to complain about...
Imagine yourself as a dining hall worker in the Union during the lunch-hour rush. Class lets out, and hundreds of freshman pour into the building, scrambling for a place in line, crowded together, bumping into one another, talking, shouting...
...Union staff drew straws for who had to wear the cow suit, because no one would volunteer, she said. The worker said she wished she could stay out of sight for the next week...
...disparaging remarks about Lamont. While "I hate Lamont" unfortunately seems to be a widespread and hastily uttered sentiment, it makes me sick at heart every time I hear it. Even worse are scenes I have witnessed at the circulation desk of Lamont. A patron becomes abusive when the desk worker refuses to tell him or her which of the four other people in the patron's tutorial currently has the only copy of the reserve reading. A professor, or more likely his stressed-out head T.A., decides it's taking too long for a book to be placed on reserve...