Word: workaday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With bountiful soils that make subsistence living an attractive alternative to workaday jobs, New Guinea's tribal life is still vibrant. Majnep says his biggest concern is the misuse of the land, as people abandon traditional crop rotation and forget about taboos that used to protect the forest. Still, people like Majnep raise hopes that the island nation may find an accord between tradition and modernity...
...space shuttle, American industry still lives by the stodgier, workaday technology of the railroad. The proof: less than 24 hours after 235,000 railworkers went on strike last week against the nation's major freight rail companies, Congress, at the urging of President Bush, ordered the strikers back to work. Bush defended the action, saying that "the strike would cripple the economy and adversely affect national security." Some half million workers in the automobile and other rail-dependent industries faced layoffs within days of the aborted job action...
...hospital intensive-care units who are constantly battling to keep characters like MacGyver alive. Everyone else is on a perpetual coffee break. Most of the cast of Wings hangs out in the airport restaurant. The office scenes in Working Girl and Open House were all devoted to the workaday rigors of party planning...
...central characters are Alex (Michael Ball), first seen as a boy of 17; Rose (Ann Crumb), the much older workaday actress with whom he is smitten; and his silver-haired uncle George (Kevin Colson), whom Rose marries for love and money. Over the years, all three have flings with Giulietta (Kathleen Rowe McAllen), an Italian sculptor, and Alex and George display more than familial interest in George's daughter Jenny (played by Deanna Du Clos at age 12, and by her sister Danielle at a nubile 14). In addition, each of these worldly figures, save Jenny, has countless other liaisons...