Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walking through the Yard during Commencement Week, you pass countless numbers of "classmates" and assorted family in town for their twenty-fifth reunion. Workmen clatter chairs in Tercentenary Theatre and student porters wander from building to building and House to House carrying baggage, playing baby-sitter and being generally affable...
...Cairo last week, workmen slapped thick coats of cream-colored paint on the walls of the U.S. embassy, which has functioned technically as the American Affairs Section of the Spanish embassy since Egypt severed diplomatic relations with Washington four years ago. Gardeners carefully groomed the embassy lawn and chauffeurs diligently polished official black cars. "It's been 18 years since we've had a Secretary of State here," said an American diplomat, surveying the work. "We're making the most...
...vets discarded silver stars and navy crosses, workmen put the finishing touches on an extensive restraining fence being constructed in anticipation of tomorrow's march...
...hated Protestant police auxiliary -the notorious "B Specials"-has been disbanded. Yet Catholics claim they still have trouble getting available housing and jobs. Northern Ireland's unemployment rate is 71% of insured workers, -and most of those out of work are Catholic. The Belfast shipyards employ 10,000 workmen, and only 500 of them are Catholics...
...generally meant that all workers on these projects draw top union scale for the area, even when workmen on most similar private jobs are earning less. "Wage rates on federal projects have been artificially set by this law rather than by customary market forces," complained Nixon. "Many of the most inflationary local wage settlements in construction have automatically been sanctioned and spread through Government contracts...