In southern summer heat of at least 120 degrees, with great plumes of flames and smoke at refineries dotting the horizon of a parched and desolate plain, workers at times moved so slowly that they seemed to be mirages.
WHETHER the fault is rising levels of ill-health or just plain slacking, workers are taking more sick days than before.
All the men offer tantalising glimpses of future rich Chekhovian characterisations: Alan Cox – affected, drunken, profligate landowner; Iain Glen – emotionally underdeveloped lawyer; Tom Georgeson – plain-speaking worker; William Postlethwaite – young idealist; John Sessions – pragmatic, self-made engineer.
Great Plains motivated workers with "the four C's": Caring, Commitment, Courage and Community.
Poor people are kind to him, especially a plain, lonely Salvation Army worker (Kati Outinen) who tells him, "It's all about mercy".
"A willful violation is one committed with intentional knowing or voluntary disregard for the law's requirements, or with plain indifference to worker safety and health," the agency said in a news release.
AS members of an underground in plain sight, Hispanic workers in the United States illegally lead furtive lives on Long Island, dodging authorities even as they are welcomed with open arms by some employers.
Who among us doesn't have the seemingly oblivious (or worse, just plain rude) co-worker who whistles/sings/hums/chews/plays his music too loud on a non-stop basis?
Carey's only got about three scenes and less than 10 minutes total onscreen playing a plain-looking social worker who tries to help Precious escape her violent mother.
The negatives are pretty plain -- muddled finances, worker discontent, hungry rivals.
And there is Jeannette Schefter, the social worker (large plain popcorn, medium Diet).
