Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, the work-sharing scheme has fallen well short of expectations. Although planners had predicted the moves would quickly create 70,000 jobs, an independent study released in May put the actual number of new positions at between 15,000 and 30,000. "We found that there is a very weak link between the reduction in the work week and increased employment," said Economist Olivier Marchand, one of three authors of the study. Some two-thirds of the 3,700 firms surveyed said they had not added a single new worker since the work week was shortened. Meanwhile, the French...
...much of the explanation has to lie with the Harvard mentality itself. Charles Sullivan, executive director of the commission, pshaws any claims that his organization inflated the costs, nothing that they recommended few actual changes, and that Harvard obviously went into the project with grand designs in mind. "You don't hire Graham Gund to build a telephone booth," Sullivan adds...
...ACSR should now wait to hear what the Corporation decides before resuming a discussion of the South Africa question. But Jonathan Cedarbaum '83, this year's undergraduate member, says that Calkins's statement merely shows how wide the gap is "between the Corporation's rhetoric and both its actual concern and practice" for the plight of Black South Africans. His term on the ACSR revealed to him, he says, that issues of shareholder responsibility are "merely inconveniences that have to be taken care of" for the Corporation, "rather than pressing matters that one should feel obliged to act on." Cedarbaum...
...clearly a class bias against the poor in the reporting of child-abuse cases. Doctors, teachers and police are less likely to accuse affluent families of beating or molesting their children even when the evidence is clear. Clinics and social-welfare agencies deal more frequently with the poor. Whether actual abuse occurs more often among poor families is not certain. A correlation between increases in unemployment rates and rises in physical child-abuse reports, however, suggests that stress over money matters tends to make parents lose their tempers more readily when a child cries too long or is unruly. Still...
...steadily risen, jumping 35% to 99,146 in 1981, the latest year for which the Justice Department has figures. (Justice calculated its number on a 56% rate for reported rapes, a percentage the experts agree is much too high.) Although most authorities feel there is some increase in the actual number of rapes, including gang rapes and rapes of children and men, most of the rise is attributed to more women reporting the attacks on them...