Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as employment, Freedom Industries's workers receive training, too. The two supermarkets upgraded employees for work as department heads. One-third of the workers at Freedom Electronics were trained on the job, either at Opportunities Industrialization Centers, or Lincoln Laboratories, an affiliate...
Even then Congress would still fuss over Communists, fellow travelers, campus agitators, Yippies, and the like. Such detective work, though, would no longer have the single-minded backing of a permanent standing committee. As a standing committee, HISC gets free printing and the right to hire over fifty investigators and consultants from a considerable budget. In 1966 it asked for and received $425,000. In 1967 liberals rallied enough strength to whittle that down to $350,000. Last year's figure edged back up to $375,000. In the 89th Congress, HUAC finished with the fourth highest appropriations...
...LEARNED last week that the Harvard Personnel Office has refused the request of David Kelston, a Public Health School research assistant, that it "supervise" his work at Harvard as partial fulfillment of his alternate obligation as a I-O conscientious objector...
...million details, the kind which it may take months of negotiation to work out, still remain. A place within the University will have to be found for most of Radcliffe's administrators. The budgetary system of the University may have to be revamped. Admission and scholarship plans for female Harvard undergraduates will have to be devised...
...like to think that Roth is also writing something like the Jewish parallel to Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He himself identifies Portnoy's older sister with a copy of Portrait. In his other work, Roth has introduced well-known book titles only for very specific reasons. Portnoy, like Stephen Daedalus, struggles to escape his family and his religion. And--as much as his country is Israel rather than America--he is forced to abandon that too when he finds himself inexplicably impotent during a visit there. But, unlike Stephen, he finds his solace...