Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each carrier's bag. A study showed that 45% of the 837 carrier routes in San Diego require more than an eight-hour shift to complete. Taking time off for surgery or unapproved nose blowing is a punishable act. "There's a rule for everything," testified a San Diego shop steward. "If a supervisor wants...
While postal officials are not likely to show up on The Oprah Winfrey Show anytime soon as examples of modern touchy-feely management, they are experimenting with new programs, including "Employee Involvement" and "Quality of Worklife Processes," to give workers more autonomy on the shop floor. In San Diego about 20 supervisors are taking Dale Carnegie courses; two are being individually treated by psychologists to reduce their "irritability factor...
...will go down as the genesis of the buddy movie. We will be watching re-runs of two strangers meeting, having adventures and becoming friends forever. Even worse would be a victory of the fashion world. Vogue has already proclaimed that in the 1980s, "Madonna made the thrift shop look very important...
Under the new offer, a subsidiary of Stop & Shop would pay the city $1 million for the road. To ensure that the company did not use it for other purposes, the city would have the option of buying back the land if the company did not build a grocery within 10 years...
...attorney for the company said if an agreement were not reached soon, the current store would have to shut down within two years. The company would then sell the land to another developer, who might not be as restrained and responsible as Stop & Shop, he said...