Word: washrooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have let the workers into the executive washroom, but we have still kept the keys...
...most participants, however, a corporate fitness program is the hottest perk since the executive washroom. "I feel better and it helps my whole attitude," says Mort Roman, a manager for Atlantic Richfield in Los Angeles. Vance Foreman, chief engineer at Xerox, credits his firm's plan with cutting his hypertension medication from three pills a day to one. Says he: "Before I'd change jobs, I'd ask an employer...
Many women at the school look forward to the establishment of a "new girl network" that would serve as "an executive washroom--for women," as Victoria Hamilton '75, a second-year student, describes it. Such a network would ease young women's entrance into an atmosphere wholly different from others in which they have succeeded previously...
...Some Like It Hot," "The Fortune Cookie," "One, Two, Three") likes to make comedies on grim subjects. ("Some Like It Hot" was about the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.) In this 1960 film an affable loser(Jack Lemmon)plays pim pin order to get a key to the executive washroom. Lemmon is perfect as the "schnook" who gets cornered into lending his apartment to philandering higher-ups in the Big New York Conglomerate in which he works. (Just a few years later, Lemmon, having played this role once too often, turned into a grotesque caricature of himself.) Shirley MacLaine...
...York City, off-duty police have scuffled with uniformed officers in vitriolic demonstrations over working conditions. In Detroit, bitter police officers insolently nicknamed their balding chief "Elmer Fudd" in washroom graffiti. San Francisco's new police chief removed the American flag to make his office less formal, and small flags defiantly sprouted on squad-car antennas. The Orange County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association in Florida gives its members a policeman's "Miranda card," outlining not the rights of criminal suspects but the officer's own rights if he is investigated by his department. Rank-and-file...