Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Saturday February 23 I walked to work. I am a restaurant worker, and my shift is from early morning to afternoon. In good weather I ride a bike for the mile-and-a-half trip through Cambridge to Harvard Square; when it's cold I either take a cab or walk. I enjoy walking and feel safer walking alone in the winter. When I'm wearing my old, bulky down jacket and stocking cap, my form disguised, I feel unprovocative...
...experiment fulfilled its promise. Over the years enrollment grew from 8,000 to 32,000. Today more than 40% of the students hold full-time jobs outside class. But the school's open admissions policy and popular courses proved its undoing, for it attracted not just serious worker-students, but dropouts, misfits and foreigners (mostly Africans) who could not meet the regular standards in other French universities...
...well below the government's official estimate of 2.7 million bbl. per day; construction is at a standstill; productivity has dropped by 80% in some large plants; tourism has vanished. Wages have been breed up by as much as 200% as the result of government decrees and worker militancy. The newly nationalized banking system is in confusion. Many Iranians fear their country could soon become little more than an exporter of oil and an importer of food, with the ruins of the economic structure the Shah built left to gather dust. Says a central bank official in Tehran...
Hospital staff volunteering additional time initiated the Brigham program in 1978, Elizabeth Kuzia, a senior social worker in the Brigham emergency unit, said recently. But she added that the volunteers "burned out" from the hectic pace of holding a regular job while being on 24-hour call for crisis counseling and referral...
Times Square simmers in July. Dodging early morning traffic on what always seems the hottest day of the summer, I wait for the ugly melody of the construction worker's yell at dawn. The faces stare back at me--a tired traffic cop; the bag lady, waking from a night's sleep in front of a burnt-out marquee; the sleazy bum waiting for Caesar's massage parlor to open its doors to all his lust. By the end of the summer I told time by these people. Their habits were so fixed that I knew I was late...