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Word: clerkes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union employees grew by only 8.3%, while that of nonunion workers edged upward just 7.2%. In other categories, the Labor Department reports that the earnings of an attorney rose by 8.9% on average; that was less than his stenographer's 12% increase but well above his file clerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Wages of Inflation | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...These things never come in as fast as you would hope," City Clerk Paul Healy explained resignedly. Among the candidates that did file, incumbent Francis Duehay and challenger David Sullivan, who spent several nights last week canvassing Harvard dorms, led all fund raisers with more than $10,000 in contributions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning, Losing and Taking Vacations | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...your point. Tell me, is it really true that the town clerk can write a permit that allows you to bury a body on your own land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Deeper Snow and Darker Horses | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...decline turned into a rout on Oct. 24, five days before Black Tuesday, and in the days and weeks that followed Wall Street was like a city under siege. Broker Jonas Ottens, 78, then an odd-lot order clerk with Salomon Bros., recalls being pressed into service to telephone customers to tell them that their margined stocks were to be sold off unless they put up more money. "The first call was routine," he remembers. "But the second man acted so upset that I thought he was going to go out and kill himself. I just refused to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Day Wall Street Was Silent | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...recalls that when he and his colleagues left their offices at night, "we walked in the middle of the street; if somebody was going to commit suicide, we did not want him to land on us." It was not an idle concern. Charles Mattey, then 19 and a commodities clerk, was typing on a billing machine when a body crashed through a skylight and landed in his office. Says he: "It was extremely traumatic." George Fowler, a retired Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. vice president, was a 15-year-old office boy with the old Guaranty Trust Co. when a husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Day Wall Street Was Silent | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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