Word: hotter
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...willingness of the robot to do the dirty work, like some mechanized Turkish Gastarbeiter, has muted alarms about the loss of jobs and has kept the labor unions mostly at bay. Welding cars and spraying paint are stupefying jobs, and, besides, they are ideally done at temperatures hotter than a worker can stand. "In the next five years," says Anthony Massaro, Westinghouse's chief of robotics technology, "we're going to lose 25,000 people in manufacturing due to attrition, and there's no way to replace them all. People joining the labor force these days...
...rifles started blazing as they walked toward the dilapidated farmhouse. "They just opened fire on us," said Ralph Chadwick, a farm equipment dealer who was visiting the property with two other whites. "We scrambled for cover and beat a fast retreat to our cars as the firing got hotter." Returning with police 30 minutes later, they found the farm's white manager, Gerald William Adams, 68, dead with a single bullet in his back...
...years ago when the Chicago Bears (I'm from Chicago) played the St. Louis Post-Dispatches in Bears' Park, otherwise known as the Field of the Unknown Soldiers in Chicago. It was about 87 degrees that night, and since they were playing under those huge spotlights, it was even hotter...
...president of Whitfield Pickle Co. in Montgomery, Ala., says his only problem is that he cannot get enough cucumbers. "At my plant we let 77 people go. It was not because of the economy but because we cannot get raw materials." In California the aerospace industry has seldom been hotter. Says William Perreault, vice president of Lockheed Corp.: "We're hard put to get the people we need...