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When the laborers did deign to stay on the building site, their performance was desultory at best. Chided by a Bateson supervisor for not working, two Mafiosi claimed that the criticism had made them ill and walked off for the rest of the day. Others worked in slow motion. Attempts to dismiss the Mob supervisors resulted in more walkouts as well as threats. In February 1970, with the completion deadline six months away, Bateson officials tried a crackdown. Shortly afterward, a fire flared on the second floor of the building, causing $100,000 in damages before it was finally extinguished...
...weeks ago, the bank's janitor accidentally put a box of 8,000 checks worth about $840,000 on a table reserved for trash. The operator of the paper shredder, which disposes of confidential material, dutifully dumped the contents into his machine. Next morning, after a frenzied search, Supervisor Madeline Roper found the shredded checks in a garbage can outside the bank. "I wanted to cry," she says. Most of the checks had been cashed at the bank and were awaiting shipment to a clearinghouse. Their loss posed the possibility of a bookkeeping nightmare because most of them were...
...Buying Respect. The women's work ethic also applies to middle-income families. In Houston, Mrs. Marjorie Wrigley, 31, took a secretarial job a year ago to supplement her husband's $11,000 annual income as a supervisor for an oil-equipment firm. Even though more than half of her $7,000-a-year salary goes for the care of their two children and other work-related expenses, the second paycheck has helped. "It seemed that our arguments always centered on how our money should be spent," Mrs. Wrigley says. "With more coming in, we give each other...
...also be used as quiet zones on construction sites, as workrooms in noisy open offices, for private sales pitches in crowded exhibition halls, or even as studies in small apartments. In a new film, La Grande Maffia, a periscope-equipped sphere becomes an observation point from which a floor supervisor oversees office workers. That seems to leave just one untested use for the uniquely French sphere-as a trysting spot...
...strict antipollution laws], they have not had a pea-soup fog for six years, and last year they had 50% more sunshine than they had ten years ago. Songbirds are returning to the parks, fish are being caught again in the Thames." He recalls a personal hero, Herbert Johnson, supervisor of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. As a minor park employee 18 years ago, Johnson was appalled at New York City's use of Jamaica Bay as a garbage dump and worked to lessen the visual pollution by planting native shrubs, bushes and trees. Now one of the major...