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...figures used make it difficult to assess just how much genuine unemployment exists. U.S. Labor Department statistics-which now place unemployment at 6.8% of the labor force-include among the jobless many people (such as teen-agers looking for part-time work and housewives seeking a job for the first time) who, in other countries, would not be listed as unemployed. When Sweden experimentally tried using U.S. measuring standards, the Swedish "unemployment" rate immediately quadrupled though the actual employment situation had not changed at all. Still, the very completeness of the U.S. figures makes them a valuable barometer for judging...
Reviewers hastened to assess the new Bible's contributions to religion and literature. Even on the 78th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, the London Daily Worker gave the new Bible serious attention-and found it wanting. "The beauty and power, the earthy 17th century prose, have been replaced by merely competent writing which ranges in character from that of a report in the Times to that of advertising copy." That Which Slept. Presumably more interested than the Daily Worker in a clear, understandable Bible, scholars and clerics in the U.S. and Britain generally sounded more favorable...
...briefing. McNamara had done some of his homework well: he made an impressive presentation of the current state of U.S. nuclear forces. Then, like Republican Defense Secretaries Neil McElroy and Tom Gates before him, honest Bob McNamara tried to explain that merely counting missiles is not the way to assess U.S. or Russian military strength. All other weapons must be taken into account. The important thing, said McNamara, is that there should be no "destruction gap." Then, casually, he added that today the Russians probably have no more intercontinental ballistic missiles than...
...total was within the next year doubled by gifts from Reed's family, and from various of his classmates. The committee suddenly had to face the fact of his own permanence. Album members responded unhesitatingly; officially constituting themselves as the Dana Reed Prize Committee, they even began to assess themselves small annual dues...
Binger observes that women seek husbands avidly in college, and that this aim is so important that girls conceal it not only from others but from themselves. And he proceeds to assess the effects of young men's failure to provide the security and approbation the girls need...