Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bouncer Lefty Liton (Dean Shapiro '91) plays a Communist whose character is well-suited to the Pudding clientele, even though his delivery may be lacking. Instead of hawking the Worker's Vanguard, he proffers "Uprise and Shine, the official journal of the social climbers' party...
...that was set in Korea) has been tempered by sympathy for the average grunt. There is still a place, in TV's current view of Viet Nam, for courage in battle, duty and loyalty to buddies. At a champagne dinner for officers in China Beach, a Red Cross worker blurts out a drunken toast to the men in the field: "Out there, it's not your war. It's not our war. It's their war." And it's their war that TV is finally trying to tell...
...make more steel per worker, the industry carried out a long-overdue modernization drive. As recently as 1974, one-quarter of all steel in the U.S. was still being produced by old-fashioned open-hearth furnaces, which take eight hours to turn molten iron into steel, compared with 45 minutes for the more efficient oxygen-fired furnaces. Since 1982, American steel companies have poured $9 billion into upgrading their mills. Open hearths now produce only 5% of domestic steel...
...million, recalls Christopher Bancroft, was like winning an elephant in a raffle: "I didn't know what the hell to do with it." Laura, a fourth-generation Rockefeller whose maiden name is hidden behind two marriages, remembers her family's vast compound as a "verdant cage." A psychiatric social worker, she happily gives away her inherited income to favorite causes like the Children's Defense Fund...
...battle began as a simple lawsuit filed by one black employee who had been passed over for a promotion at General Motors. But by the time GM agreed to a settlement last week, the complaint had grown into a class-action suit representing some 10,000 workers, mostly clerical and managerial, who will reap millions of dollars in pay adjustments. The accusation: that GM's system for judging worker performance discriminated against blacks. "Evaluators were allowed to indulge their biases, conscious or unconscious," said Dennis James, lawyer for the plaintiffs...