Word: annually
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...fail because it treats the symptoms rather than the causes of distress. Brooke advocates "an all-out, unqualified massive attack on the conditions which doom many Americans." He would increase relief payments, expand unemployment and minimum-wage coverage, "retool our total approach to education," and seriously consider a guaranteed annual wage at Government expense. He would even outdo Lady Bird with a "massive clean-up-and-beautify-America program...
...Unwillingness to Accept." A recent survey under the auspices of the Office of Economic Opportunity reported that the annual purchasing power of the average Watts family has actually declined 8% or $400 since 1959, during a period in which the typical U.S. family's income rose 14% and that of nonwhite families elsewhere jumped 24%. Thus Watts has changed little-but its illness goes deeper than poverty. Such, at least, was the view of former CIA Director John A. McCone, who headed a commission that conducted an exhaustive investigation of the August riots. Said McCone: "This is one more...
...Potash. Dubinsky's blend of social conscience and business acumen is shared by Patton, 63, who announced his retirement at the N.F.U.'s annual convention in Denver. Patton, who wears a piratical black patch over his left eye (it was removed in a cancer operation), built the N.F.U. from a struggling organization of 80,681 dirt-poor, Dust Bowl farm families to its present eminence as one of the Big Three of U.S. agrarian lobbies, with a membership of 750,000-mostly small farmers-in 40 states. Under Patton, the son of a union leader, the N.F.U...
...answer has to be Shapiro, 34, the choleric boss of Michigan's thriving Institute of Continuing Legal Education on the state university campus at Ann Arbor. Last year Shapiro lured 2,500 U.S. lawyers through a blinding blizzard to Michigan's Annual Advocacy Institute. This year 3,500 lawyers showed up from 49 states, Canada and Mexico. For two days in Ann Arbor, they positively drooled as leading judges presided over mock personal-injury trials and master cross-examiners demolished hapless witnesses...
David Merrick recently took his annual physical examination at Boston's Lahey Clinic, and his friends may be relieved to learn that he does not have a long red pointy tail. In other respects, however, David is a devil of a fellow...