Word: workmen
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Just hours before Howard K. Smith welcomed the crowd of 100 million watching on television to the debate, workmen were still installing phones and checking the electrical connections in the halls. Since the city found out five days ago it would host the debate, civic leaders have been praying that Cleveland--where Charles Brush in 1879 invented the first street light--would live up to its reputation as the electricity capital of North America...
Twenty-five miles away, at Ford Motor Co.'s Wayne, Mich., plant, workmen are busily assembling the company's new subcompacts, the Ford Escort and the Mercury Lynx. Developed at a cost of $3 billion, the new cars are the first autos that Ford has built from the ground up since the Model...
...industry is making such changes on the assembly line that Henry Ford would never recognize it. Industrial robots are taking over many tasks previously done by workmen. A spot welding unit can cost $60,000, but operating expenses run only $6 an hour. By contrast, an average assembly-line worker earns $17 per hour in wages and benefits. Programmed by computer, the robots' hooklike hands lift heavy steel parts and wield
...systematically downgraded. To begin with, some of his formerly ubiquitous likenesses were being removed from public view. Four large portraits of Mao have vanished from the Great Hall of the People, where the Communist Party is preparing to hold the National People's Congress. At the same time, workmen are preparing to strip one more huge picture of the late Chairman from the façade of another landmark, the Museum of Chinese and Party History...
...some cases, when nothing seems to help the pain, the patient is malingering. He uses an injury, often minor, to press lawsuits, collect workmen's compensation and Social Security, and pick up insurance disability payments. The problem is not confined to the U.S. In Sweden 25% of workers who retire early do so because of back troubles-in many cases on the basis of obviously phony claims. Keim says facetiously that such people are suffering from "green poultice syndrome": "These patients often respond miraculously to the application of $100 bills. When the pile of bills reaches the proper thickness...