The action is planned to start on 20 November and follows the one-day strike on 1 November by medical secretaries and receptionists.

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Presidents, Cabinet secretaries and Members of Congress routinely give more speeches in a day than the average CEO delivers in a month.

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And, while senior officials are entitled to make decisions about which of the countless number of memos generated every day they deem worthy of passing up the line and when, Secretaries of State generally rely as much on direct contacts with their counterparts as staff memoranda to keep them apprized of allied views about pending issues .

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It began in December 1967 when five secretaries at a ventilation and heating company volunteered to work an extra half hour each day without pay to do their bit for the flagging economy.

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U.S. Treasury secretaries, Fed chairmen, and leading economists told the world that everything was all right one day and then the next day some new disaster happened.

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