Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intention was to scare people," said a San Juan police spokesman of Hector Escudero Aponte. But when the kitchen worker at the labor-troubled Dupont Plaza hotel ignited a container of cooking fuel atop a stack of furniture boxes in the hotel ballroom on New Year's Eve, he set off a conflagration that killed 96 people. Police said Escudero admitted his role in the second worst hotel fire in U.S. history after witnesses led investigators to him. He was accused of 96 counts of murder, as well as charges of arson and conspiracy. The next day authorities arrested Armando...
...political principles." China's newspapers also ran self- criticism, bizarrely apologizing for stories written last fall. No less chilling was the group of scientists who appeared on the evening news to speak against Fang two days after the astrophysicist's dismissal. "These days," said a middle-aged Peking office worker, "it smells like gunpowder from the Cultural Revolution...
...family-album picture of swank domesticity in their Santa Monica home. They swore off drugs a few years ago, and now seem addicted only to each other and their little son Sean. "Success and Sean have made Oliver much mellower," Elizabeth notes. "But he's still a compulsive worker. Always reading or writing, he simply loves ideas. He's filled with them, and he's thrilled with them...
...fresh initiatives in his fiscal 1988 budget proposal Ronald Reagan weighed in with a plan of his own: a $1 billion counseling and retraining program designed to help workers displaced from their jobs and to counter Democratic plans to capitalize on the competitiveness issue through protectionist legislation. The Worker Adjustment Assistance Program is likely to be part of a trade bill that the Administration intends to put forth as a defense against those Democrats who are pushing for new tariffs, quotas and other restrictions on "unfair" foreign competition...
...dealing with what he calls the "new realities," among them the need for a more mobile and flexible skilled-labor force. A task force headed by Malcolm Lovell, a professor at George Washington University, recommended consolidating diverse federal programs and almost tripling the $344 million annually spent on worker retraining...