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- <text id=90TT1170>
- <title>
- May 07, 1990: Business Notes:Labor
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 07, 1990 Dirty Words
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 91
- Business Notes
- LABOR
- The Scab's Baedeker
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- <body>
- <p> "Don't stop to talk to anyone who approaches you. Don't make
- eye contact with passersby. Try not to look lost, even if you
- are." What kind of place needs to give its visitors such ominous
- advice? The surprising source is the New York Daily News, which
- bills itself as New York's Hometown Paper. The News has spent
- the past year preparing for the possibility of a multiunion
- strike by seeking "replacement workers" from around the U.S. To
- orient its out-of-town talent to life in the wilds of Manhattan,
- the News is preparing a guidebook that portrays a vision of the
- city dramatically at odds with the paper's public boosterism.
- </p>
- <p> Perhaps anticipating hostility toward the imported help, the
- guide warns, "Don't frequent restaurants in close proximity to
- the office" or "hangouts traditionally populated by
- journalists." News spokesman John Sloan, who says the guide was
- purloined from company computers, defends the advice as "general
- safety tips that you would use in any big city, and nothing more
- than that."
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- </body>
- </article>
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