Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they set up Daniloff merely in retaliation for the arrest in New York of Soviet U.N. worker Gennadi Zakharov--hoping they could then work out a quiet, straight-forward swap for their spy? Or did they desire all along that the arrest cloud superpower relations and force a U.S. government under pressure to move toward an arms-control agreement to make concessions it would not otherwise make...
...unexpectedly. Surgery seemed too risky, and LaPorte's life became consumed by the harrowing effort to hide his embarrassing condition. He quit jobs and refused advancement. "One employer wanted to promote me to a sales position that meant traveling all over Canada," recalls LaPorte, now 36 and a factory worker in Windsor, Ont. "I just couldn't cope with that. 'It' was always on my mind." His fear forced him to curtail family and social activities. "I went out only when I had to," he confesses. Not anymore. Two years ago, LaPorte read about a self-help group in Wilmette...
...contracts are just one in a dizzying array of Deng's market-oriented economic reforms. In China's first bankruptcy auction last week, the government sold a factory in northeastern Liaoning province to a worker-owned unit of the Shenyang Gas Supply Co. The plant went out of business in August after Peking decided to stop propping up money-losing ventures. In another move, limited stock trading began in Shanghai in a test that could lead to the creation of China's first stock exchange since...
...breed of temporary worker is jumping into the U.S. labor market: the temp professional. In growing numbers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, computer experts and college professors willing to punch in and out for up to $150 an hour are being snapped up by firms and institutions eager for their services but only for a while. Professionals now account for an estimated 11% of the 800,000 Americans who work each day in temporary positions. The top-drawer temps, whose numbers are increasing about 10% a year, are profoundly changing the $6 billion temporary-service industry...
...know why he is involved in this Africa thing," said a Leverett House dining hall worker, who spoke on condition that he not be identified. "He's supposed to be representing the union...