Word: furloughed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief of staff was paroled in time for Christmas. "This is generally considered a special time of the year to rejoice, and it sure is for me," said Haldeman. Two days later, John Mitchell, the last of the Watergate gang still behind bars, was permitted a five-day Christmas furlough...
...only real evidence of professionalism comes from Cinematographer Mike Chapman (Taxi Driver), who has shot New York's mean streets in his usual lucid way. The cast varies from bad to worse. Heroine Tisa Farrow speaks as if she were a spaced-out extra on furlough from Blow-Up. Jim Brown, the subject of a 1971 Toback book, is on hand only to act out the script's juvenile racial-sexual fantasies. As the hero, a schizo prone to gesturing with his mouth while banging at the keyboard, Keitel gives the first terrible performance of his career...
...Price last saw Richard Nixon at the beginning of November, when the former speechwriter took a two-week-long furlough from the institute to work with the former president on the memoirs once again at La Casa Pacifica, the Nixons' San Clemente estate. In contrasting the Nixon of three weeks ago with the Nixon of the White House years, Price says Nixon's outlook is more mellowed, more reflective...
...employees, the attraction of a regular, weekly three-day furlough from the salt mines is obvious enough, but some companies have found that the four-day week also brings certain problems. McDonald's Corp., which since 1969 has closed up shop every summertime Friday at 1 p.m. in all its administrative offices around the country, finds that while the workers love it, business callers sometimes get frustrated trying to reach someone on the phone on a Friday afternoon. Other four-day companies have found that workers tend to use their longer weekends to moonlight on second jobs, and thus...
...bankruptcy. Chrysler's huge inventories of unsold cars were reduced dramatically by a desperate, carnival-style rebate scheme that was reluctantly picked up by competitors. A furious cost-cutting program resulted in layoffs of 20,000 salaried employees, who joined an army of assembly-line workers already on furlough. Still, the losses mounted, and last summer Lynn Townsend resigned after nine years as chairman. In October, he was succeeded by John Riccardo, 51, an accountant by training...