Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cause I'm a dorm crew worker...
Gehry, 57, has lived in Southern California almost continuously since he was a teenager, and his buildings are Californian -- brash, unpretentious, ad hoc, construction-worker constructivist. For him, imperfect construction details and urban sprawl are now American givens: the challenge is to make buildings that are compelling in spite of off-the-rack materials and confused, banal surroundings...
...last word. The new dynamics will be at work this week, when, on the first Monday of October, the Justices formally open the term. Oral arguments are scheduled Wednesday in one of the most difficult cases they face. Feminists are split over a 1978 California law allowing a pregnant worker to take up to four months of unpaid leave. The Justice Department has joined a Los Angeles bank in claiming that the statute runs afoul of federal laws barring discrimination based on pregnancy. Kathy Bonk of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, which also opposes the state rule, argues...
Some didn't make it, and they were burned alive, fire scorching the skin from their hands and neck and face, peeling their legs. Think of what it's like to burn alive. "Blacks are paying with their lives," announced one Black worker's union, "for the wealth and profits in which they do not share...
...construction worker and confessed fanatic, Vinny was presented his first football in a bassinet. It was the day he came home from the hospital. "When I think of it now I have to laugh," his father says, "but I also have to believe in God." To free himself for football trips, Al Testaverde has given up his 17-year foreman's job to go back to the cruel toil of grading and finishing cement. "It's worth it," he says. "I want Vinny to * win the Heisman more than he wants to win it; I admit that. If he wins...