Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, most apprentices must start work at half of a journeyman's pay and stay in training for three to five years, a period that many experts consider at least twice as long as necessary. Union officials contend that the system is vital to maintain standards of workmanship. "The apprenticeship program is so rigged that it would take a college-level black to get in," .says Assistant Labor Secretary Arthur Fletcher. "Why should a Negro who can be a college-trained engineer want to be a plumber...
...wages of carpenters, plumbers, glaziers and electricians. Typically, the Chicago Better Business Bureau last year counted 2,178 protests against the performance of home remodelers, substantially more than the number of gripes registered against the runner-up, the auto-repair business. Home repair is characterized by maddening delays, shoddy workmanship and startling expense...
...Landscape, like Silence, offers only what it offers in the beginning: skillful but schematic juxtapositions of crudity and tenderness, aspiration and loss, memory and desire. Their meaning may be clear, but when they are left undeveloped and unresolved, such juxtapositions are all workmanship and no play. The audience gets the point-but it gets very little else...
...proceeds to an inner sanctum of the store, the shopper can look at even raunchier merchandise, including a dozen kinds of rubber phalli in varying sizes. According to the manager of the Stuttgart store, Beate's son Ulli, such Deutsche Wertarbeit (German quality workmanship) is particularly popular with French tourists...
...fringe benefits, tend to take less pride in their jobs than their elders. American Motors had to recall 750 cars over the past year because workers carelessly installed the wrong alternators, which did not generate enough current to keep the batteries fully charged under heavy loads. To overcome lax workmanship on the production line, G.M.'s Buick Division not long ago outfitted torque wrenches with horns that sound off whenever workers fail to fasten nuts and bolts tightly enough. Quality control is becoming an increasingly big headache on Mondays and Fridays, when high absenteeism forces management to rely heavily...