Word: electricians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water during nighttime or the early morning hours when utility companies offer reduced rates for so-called off-peak usage. Several firms manufacture industrial-grade timer clocks for that purpose. The Tork Corp.'s clock retails for $30 to $40 and is easily wired up by a licensed electrician. Sales of such timers have jumped by 300% over the past two years...
...Phoenix rationale is straightforward. Marriage is a vocation. "You cannot become a plumber or an electrician in two weeks," remarks the priest who heads the diocesan tribunal. Bishop Rausch believes that lack of mature preparation is the chief cause of trouble. "We need to move our young people beyond romance or physical attraction to the sound foundations of love." It will take hard work, he adds, for Catholics to resist the trend to treat marriage and divorce casually...
...year, white, laboratory analyst at a chemical plant in Gramercy, La. He had sued both his employer, the Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., and the Steelworkers Union in 1974, charging that he had been illegally excluded from a training program for higher paying skilled jobs, such as electrician and repairman, in which half the places were reserved for minorities. Though Weber won in two lower courts, he lost in the high court. By a 5-to-2 vote, the justices ruled that employers can indeed give blacks special preference for jobs that were traditionally all white. Whether...
...will undoubtedly breed some resentment. Weber himself last week predicted that the decision will have "a negative effect on people all over the country toward blacks." Perhaps. But the ruling will also bring hope. "I've done better than my parents ever dreamed," says James Nailor, a black electrician who was one of the first to be accepted into the Kaiser training program from which Weber was barred. "The decision means my children will have a chance to do better than I will. That's the American dream...
...they huddled with 60,000 other refugees awaiting a new home. Said he: "In my country I could no longer care for my family. Here it will be different." The day after he arrived, he was able to find, with the help of his sponsors, a job as an electrician's assistant in Chariton, Iowa...