Word: clerke
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Before coming to Harvard, Sacks served as a clerk to former Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. He received his B.A. from the City College of New York and his law degree from Harvard
...Soviet navy demands three years of service; army and air force draftees spend two years in uniform. Although women are not being conscripted, an estimated 10,000 volunteers now serve in such noncombat roles as nurse and clerk. Only about 12% of Soviet males escape military service. Many of these fall below the armed forces' physical and mental standards; others are given hardship waivers to stay home and support infirm parents or wives. Some Western experts believe that it is relatively easy for university students to avoid active military service. Technically, however, every able-bodied male at a university...
...dream of helping children rather than for reasons of security or salary. The estimated average salary of elementary school teachers is $15,661, and of high school teachers $16,387, for nine months' work. The average yearly pay of a plumber is about $19,700; for a government clerk it's approximately $15,500. The best-educated and most selfless teachers are highly critical and deeply concerned about the decline in teaching standards and educational procedures. Their frustration is perhaps the strongest warning signal...
...Loman, the money is clearly not in the U.S.A.F. He takes home $550 monthly, and his family - Wife Pat and two children - squeaked by on food stamps until Pat took a job as a sales clerk at a nearby department store. He had to put 180,000 miles on his 1969 Plymouth before selling it last November - and then could only afford a used 1973 Chevy. He and his family live on base because he cannot afford to buy a house. Says Loman: "I'm missing the American dream by serving in the American Air Force...
...most difficult task advertisers now face is to second-guess the mood of U.S. consumers. According to experts. Americans are more pessimistic about the economic outlook than at any time since the bottom of the 1957 recession. Detroit Schoolteacher Josh Leopold and his wife Marilyn, a clerk in a department store, are typical. "We've had to cut back on entertainment," says Leopold. "We just don't go out to dinner or the movies as often as we did. We've also eliminated a book club and decided to just put off painting the inside...