Word: workmen
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...days they had kept a silent vigil in honor of the 70 or so patriots who died under Soviet guns and tank treads in the first days of the invasion. On the spot where the bloodied clothes of a slain 14-year-old had lain surrounded by candles, city workmen emplanted rows of blooming red salvias. Then a water truck sprayed the flowers, finishing the job of converting Czechoslovakia's main shrine to its martyrs into just another bit of cosmetic civic landscaping...
...expressway leading to Chicago's International Amphitheatre, workmen slapped a new coat of silver over the mud-spattered dividing rail. On streets surrounding the hall-many of them barred to all but VIP vehicles-lampposts were painted kelly green. Even fire hydrants were touched up by the painter's brush. Redwood fences, in a rainbow of pastels, hid junkyards and trash-strewn lots from the eyes of passing drivers and their passengers...
...rough. Larosa's students broke into fistfights almost daily, hurled paper clips, and hit him on the head with chalk and textbooks. Soon he had a bleeding ulcer and, on his doctor's advice, quit teaching. Last month, in a landmark ruling affecting a teacher, a California Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board decided that Larosa had "sustained injury arising out of his employment." His award: medical costs and $70 a week...
...university as classes open, on the theory that administrators will react harshly, thus generating sympathy for the militants. Others have proposed more subtie harassments, such as gumming up registration by filing wrong information on computer cards. In any case, the administration is preparing for the worst. Last week workmen were installing thick, rockproof Plexiglas windows in Kirk's Low Library office...
...been pushing for adjournment for weeks, while Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh had been desperately seeking to keep his chamber in session. There is still plenty of unfinished business: Reagan's own program to reduce California's high property taxes, a $100 million school financing bill, increased workmen's compensation and disability benefits. The most important item: a $144 million deficit that is holding up completion of San Francisco's troubled Bay Area Rapid Transit System...