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...lobbied for years for a subminimum wage for the teenage workers who form the majority of its employees. And even some famous universities could take a lesson from McDonald's union-busting methods. Claiming no "outsider" (read: union) is needed to resolve labor-management conflicts, managers hold "rap sessions" with employees, ostensibly to understand their grievances. Actually, Hamburger Central directs managers to heed complaints only as a clue to which employees have unionizing sympathies. Tricky lie detector tests await the bad burgers...
...That's part of my image, unfortunately, and I have to deal with it if I expect broad-support. It springs partly from my strong positions on welfare. I think welfare destroys human beings. I really think I've had a bum rap on caring about people who need help...
...they probably wouldn't have elected Republican Arch Moore governor except that his Democratic opponent was allegedly involved in shady land deals, and a former Democratic governor had just been sentenced to federal penitentiary for bribing a grand jury. They thought he was honest. Arch Moore beat a federal rap for extortion last week, so I guess the voters were vindicated...
...cops v. cons in a football game straight out of the 1974 film The Longest Yard. But this time none of the players came from central casting. The quarterback for the boys in blue denim was Black Militant H. Rap Brown, 32, now serving a 5-to-15-year stretch for a 1971 robbery and shootout with Manhattan police. Brown's teammates: some of his comrades from Green Haven prison. Their opposition: New York's Finest, who agreed to the charity game at Long Island's Hofstra University in order to raise money for retarded children. Despite...
...Though the Ford Administration valued at $32 million the military aid supplied by the CIA to anti-Soviet factions in Angola, the report charges that it was really worth much more. High Administration officials called the accusation a bum rap, insisting that .45-cal. pistols were valued as low as $5 apiece and .30-cal. semiautomatic carbines as low as $7.55 because they were World War II surplus, and have drastically depreciated...