Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...plant--the Medical Area Services Corporation (MASCO)--was performing. But privately, they had to be questioning their scheme, wondering what had happened late Saturday night when the plant, under control of MASCO's higher-ups, stopped functioning and the emergency switches had to be thrown. They had to know that the 13 hospitals and institutions which count on the plant for heat, chilled water and air conditioning would not be reassured if the lights started to dim or the incubators started to cool off. They had to worry about the strike continuing longer than they'd like, about local news...
None of that happened. The University's informal team of plant-watchers and labor negotiators drove down to Mission Hill and came away with a signed contract. The users probably didn't even know the plant went down until they heard it on the 11:00 news. The MASCO higher-ups got everything under control and ran the plant fairly smoothly for the duration of the strike. And the plant's oil supplies never even got near the danger point...
...this case, the company is MASCO--in other cases, it is Harvard Real Estate and, who knows, maybe Veritech--and its business is producing power. And true, MASCO's temporary troubles are over--the workers are back on the job. The incident, however, is symptomatic of a disease familiar to Harvard's corporate offspring: insensitivity. "We've got nothing against the University and its power plant." one worker said as he rubbed his hands together. "It's just that Harvard doesn't know how to handle its employees." "The strike should never have happened," a Harvard official said after...
...difficult to know quite just what to say. What can you say? 'Good luck? or 'See you in Israel'? It's like taunting them," Kranc said...
...fortunes change, of course, money does that, you know, even to the best of us. Joe is the best of us and our worst, too. He is loving, coming with passion in short, artful gasps. He is cruel, rearing back, throwing pain into the wind, looking away. He is single, divorced and divorced and divorced, alone and lonely, separate...