Word: working
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mass dissatisfaction? A major increase in working hours, coupled with a corresponding rise in stress, has led to an erosion in the quality of life for many lawyers. Law firms often require that each year attorneys do 2,000 to 2,500 hours of work that can be billed to clients, almost a third more than a decade ago. That frequently translates into twelve-hour-plus workdays and busy weekends as well...
...Rajiv, but in 1987 he resigned, claiming that he had been blocked in his efforts to unearth graft related to defense contracts. Soon after, Singh launched a dogged national crusade against corruption. For the elections, he persuaded several of India's opposition groups to quit fighting one another and work together to defeat Congress. As a result, they were able to avoid facing each other and thus splitting the opposition vote in 387 of the 525 parliamentary contests last month...
...realistic. One imagines them heading for the sort of civilized divorce settlement that people with a fair amount of community property to protect generally work out. No such luck for the Roses. All kinds of good luck for moviegoers willing to follow director Danny DeVito and screenwriter Michael Leeson down an increasingly dark and comedically dangerous path. The problem is their house, symbol of everything they have struggled to achieve. Barbara is willing to forgo alimony if she can keep it. Oliver is ready to pay her almost anything if he can have it. His lawyer (nicely played by DeVito...
...avoid escalation. The Soviets cancel strategic exercises because they might be misunderstood. In the investigation of the poison-gas attack in Washington, Georgi Arbatov, the director of the Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, who plays a national security adviser to the Kremlin, orders the KGB to work directly with...
...debate over the historic worth of these roadside wonders is sure to continue. Landscape theorist J.B. Jackson thinks saving car washes and doughnut stores is absurd. Says he: "There's a fake folksiness at work." Although Liebs somewhat agrees, he feels it is necessary to study vernacular architecture. "This century," he says, "is also highways and strips and suburbs." As Chuck Berry told the doo-wop generation, Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news...