Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anna Price of Washington, catastrophic health care means looking after her husband James, 78, a retired federal worker who has suffered for ten years from Alzheimer's disease. He can neither bathe nor dress himself. She frets about him constantly, and about how she will pay the doctor and the sitter who comes twice a week so she can go out to buy groceries. Even the $25 a month she pays for diaper-like underpants for her incontinent husband is a drain on ( their dwindling life savings, now less than...
...done before in England with different objects and a different title, Fuel for the Fire. The current enigmatic title comes from the absentminded state one gets into when stacking up tons of old magazines, one by one, a condition Mach compares to that of an assembly-line worker whose thoughts are "a million miles away" while his hands do their repetitive chores...
...Charnele Dozier Brown, the only American in the cast. During a recent matinee the spectators laughed, stomped, clapped and cried along with the musical's emotional tide. They lifted their voices to the anthem Freedom Is Coming Tomorrow. "You can relate to it," said Gloria Brown, a Newark cafeteria worker. Too much time has passed since the children of Sarafina! have seen their parents, their friends, or the green hills of Zululand. In the Hotel Esplanade (where they settled after guests at the Mayflower didn't take to rock music at 3 a.m.), they visit back and forth like...
...Boston jury this spring handed down its decision on the seven-year-old discrimination suit of a former Facilities Maintenance worker--Harvard was guilty of sexual discrimination. Neither side was happy with the outcome...
Walters was the second female Facilities Maintenance worker at Harvard when she was hired in 1979. After Walters was promoted to a supervisory position, she complained to the University that one of her co-workers had threatened her and threw a firecracker at her head...