Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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When a railroad worker retires, the company traditionally gives him a gold watch. When Educational Statesman Clark Kerr retires later this month at 68, his nonprofit firm, the 15-member Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, will mark the occasion in its own special style, by issuing a 155-page report on a weighty and favorite theme: the equivocal prospects of U.S. higher education...
...group of people who use wire-bonding machines suggested that if a single worker came in 15 minutes early each morning to warm up all the machines, everyone could start work as soon as he arrived. The saving: about $22,000 a year. - Another circle, of people who use color-coded tapes to assemble transformers for radar systems, recommended that each worker be given his own tape machine rather than sharing on a three-for-one basis. The twelve extra machines cost $174, but the company saves some $11,000 a year in production time. - A purchasing-department circle noted...
...Government has passed many laws designed to help the lowest-skilled worker but has actually hurt him. Says Williams: "The whole process was aptly described in the play Green Pastures. God remarks to the angels, 'That's always the trouble with miracles. When you pass one, you always gotta r'ar back and pass another.'" What is required is less miracle-making legislation. Or, as Williams puts it, "Black people do not need any special programs. All they need is for Government to get off their backs...
George J. Murphy, a construction worker from peabody, said he strongly favors the sanctions. He added that he hoped the Soviet people would react by pressuring their government to remove its troops from Afghanistan...
Timothy J. Crowley, a construction worker from Salem, wants the U.S. to take a harder line toward the Soviets, stopping only at armed intervention. Questioning the effectiveness of economic sanctions, Crowley believes the government should arm the Afgahanistan rebels...