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work and week
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.
Independent market owners work six days a week ; ;
They are leaving so fast that the president of the West German Employers' Federation issued an appeal this week to factory workers in the West to volunteer for six months' front-line work in factories in West Berlin.
Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.
Have you investigated the possibility of moving midweek holidays forward to Monday or back to Friday in order to have an uninterrupted work week??
We'll work out about an hour on Saturday, then we'll work Monday and Tuesday of next week, then taper off ''.
During the extended peak of the strip, the workload grew to include advertising, merchandising, promotional work, public service comics and other specialty work — in addition to the regular six dailies and one Sunday strip per week.
A recent National Association of Corporate Directors study found directors averaging just 4. 3 hours a week on board work.
The contract stipulated a year's work at $ 150 a week.
The introduction of a Miner ’ s Charter in 1946 instituted a five-day work week for miners and a standardised day wage structure, and in 1948 a Colliery Workers Supplementary Scheme was approved, providing supplementary allowances to disabled coal-workers and their dependants.
) who meet each week to prepare the work and tasks of the Council.
" The 1937 law, in addition to providing employment and performance of useful work made the inclusion of vocational and academic training a mandatory minimum of 10 hours per week, to provide enrollees with necessary training for employment after discharge.
A week later the work was performed with a full cast at the Poetry Centre in New York.
Huffman was set to begin work on the television miniseries North and South the following week.
At the end of each week, the project manager identifies every detailed element of work that has been completed, and sums the PV for each of these completed elements.
The week of the Memorial is generally filled with special activity in the ministry, such as door-to-door work.
Feeling that he was underpaid for the quality of his work for Silsbee ( at $ 8 a week ), the young draftsman quit and found work as a designer at the firm of Beers, Clay, and Dutton.
Hungarian fascist Gyula Gömbös rose to power as Prime Minister of Hungary in 1932 and attempted to entrench his Party of National Unity throughout the country ; created an eight-hour work day, a forty-eight hour work week in industry, and sought to entrench a corporatist economy ; and pursued irredentist claims on Hungary's neighbors.
Inhabitants should plan to remain sheltered for at least two weeks ( with an hour out at the end of the first week – see Swiss Civil Defense guidelines ( which was once part of Swiss Zivilschutz )), then work outside for gradually increasing amounts of time, to four hours a day at three weeks.

work and attendants
The attendants generally were not trained to work with the mentally ill ( some even feared the patients ) and resorted to restraints to maintain order and calm.
Because of the dangers and frustrations that attendants experienced in their work, Pinel put great emphasis on the selection and supervision of attendants in order to establish a custodial setting dedicated to norms of constraint and liberty that would facilitate psychological work.
An MD-11 has a standard flight crew consisting of a captain and a first officer, and a cabin crew made up of a maître de cabine ( M / C-purser ) supervising the work of 11 flight attendants.
380 ground employees will work in the building, and pre-flight briefings for about 2, 000 flight attendants will be held in the building.
At some airlines flight attendants also clean the aircraft or work as gate agents ( limiting personnel costs ).
They work in the Archives, Costume Shop, Costume warehouse, and Scene Shop, help with auditions, serve as attendants in the company gymnasium.
Patterson is credited with starting the profession of flight attendant — he gave his approval to hire eight nurses to work as flight attendants on a three-month trial basis.
Aircraft loaders had earlier refused to work at the extreme 30 foot height necessary for putting freight on the upper deck, so the " supernumerary area " or " hump " was configured with 19 first class seats instead which were used to transport livestock handlers, charter agents and mechanics as well as dead-heading pilots and flight attendants.
Twenty minutes later the union faxed a notice to the company explaining the strike was over and that the flight attendants offered to unconditionally return to work.
Management could not decide what to do and these flight attendants were held out of service with pay until management simply let them return to work a few weeks later.
Rather than allowing these flight attendants to come back to work 30 minutes later when the intermittent strike had ended, Alaska management told this crew they were " permanently replaced ", much like a traditional strike.
During the time they were out of work, they were fully supported through AFA's CHAOS strike donations with the pay they would have earned working as flight attendants.
After exhausting every legal and negotiations avenue, the flight attendants became the last major work group at Northwest to agree to new contract terms in bankruptcy.
This term can also refer to the individuals whose primary work is dealing with patrons, including house managers, ticket vendors, bartenders, merchandise vendors, ushers, and museum attendants.

work and who
But there were other homesteaders who passed the Lewis murder off as a personal grudge killing, the work of one of his neighbors.
But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.
Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.
A driver of a dairy truck, who begins work at 1 a.m. finishes before breakfast, then goes out and grows a garden, and who has used the cannery to save and feed a family of five, asked, `` What in the world will we do ''??
In his CDC work, Carvey has the close-in support and advice of one of California's shrewdest political strategists: former Democratic National Committeeman Paul Ziffren, who backed him over a Northland candidate espoused by Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk.
For those who `` like poetry but never get around to reading it '', the Library of Congress makes it possible for poets to be heard reading their own work.
Why should CTA regular riders subsidize reduced transportation for old people any more than the people who drive their own cars or walk to work should??
Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.
Whenever the place was cleaned or a meal served it was Precious who did the work.
She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.
This is a $14 million operation involving 3,500 employees who work on commuter traffic exclusively.
The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.
and quality of advice, added to devotion to the Foundation's purposes and ideals, we do get from our Advisory Board in measures so full that they can be appreciated only by those of us who work here every day.
In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.
Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.
Certainly there would be less anxiety, fewer accidents ( it is the clumsy child who sustains the worst injuries ), and higher scholastic averages, since alert children work better.
At first each child should do a kick-up by himself so that the teacher can determine those ready to work alone, and those who need help.
the scientist who rebelled against the personnel and paper work ; ;
There have been many extremely competent men who have been converted into very incompetent managers or submerged in paper work, to their own and the public's dissatisfaction and loss.
Part of this headquarters staff, however, are engineering managers who work between divisional chief engineers and headquarters management.

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